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The Effects Of Picture Prompts On The Acquisition Of Receptive Language In Children With Autism, Hanna Simons
The Effects Of Picture Prompts On The Acquisition Of Receptive Language In Children With Autism, Hanna Simons
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The present study evaluated the effectiveness of picture prompts in the acquisition of receptive language. Receptive language training is the ability to listen to and understand what is being communicated (Miller, Carp, Petursdottir, 2009). Receptive language training requires the acquisition of auditory-visual conditional discriminations. In receptive language training the child must attend to the auditory and comparison stimuli. This is sometimes an issue for children with autism. Previous research has shown that receptive language training can be facilitated through the use of picture prompts (Fisher, Kodak, & Moore, 2007). The participant for the study was 3 years old. He was …