Enabling a prelinguistic communicator with autism to use picture card as a strategy for repairing listener misunderstandings: A case study

Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 410-421

  Ohtake, Yoshihisa ^a   Wehmeyer, Michael ^b   Uchida, Naomi ^c   Nakaya, Akitaka ^a   Yanagihara, Masafumi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Department of English   (Japan)

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