Describing how caregivers' talk to their autistic children, and how their talk may influence
social and language outcomes, has important implications for developmental theory and …

Background Language development is a highly interactive activity. However, most research
on linguistic environment has focused on the quantity and complexity of linguistic input to …

Background Girls with autism spectrum condition (ASC) are chronically underdiagnosed
compared to boys, which may be due to poorly understood sex differences in a variety of …

Children with autism spectrum disorder often have significant language delays. But do they
learn language differently than neurotypical toddlers? We compared the lexical skills of 64 …

This study examined joint engagement, parent labels, and language development in infants
with an elevated (EL) and typical likelihood (TL) for ASD. Parent–child interactions were …

Naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions (NDBI) are an evidence‐based class of
early interventions for improving language and social communication skills in autistic …

Various aspects of parent responsiveness are associated with child outcomes, such as play,
language, and social development. However, behavioral coding methods used to measure …

Background Parental input plays a central role in typical language acquisition and
development. In autism spectrum disorder (ASD), characterized by social communicative …

Purpose: Sentence diversity is a measure of early language development that has yet to be
applied to individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The primary aim of this study …

The relation between caregiver follow-in utterances with verbs presented in different states
of dyadic engagement and later child expressive verb vocabulary in children with autism …