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Responses To Partner Comments And Acknowledgements In Students With And Without Autism, Kaitlyn Bresette
Responses To Partner Comments And Acknowledgements In Students With And Without Autism, Kaitlyn Bresette
Masters Theses, 2020-current
Some children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) initiate and respond less frequently than neurotypicals (NT) during language sampling tasks. More information is needed regarding how partner behaviors, such as comments and acknowledgements and the sampling context, influence the types of responses provided by children with ASD. This research study examined responses to adult comments and acknowledgments in two language sampling tasks, a traditional Share and Tell sample and a Double Interview sample (Garcia-Winner, 2002).
Participants. Fifty-eight participants, between the ages of 10 and 17 years, were recruited across two labs. The sample consisted of 28 adolescents with ASD …