Preverbal Communicative Behavior in Children with Autistic Disorders

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the conditions of preverbal behavior (joint visual attention, declarative pointing, referential looking) which are necessary to form the basis of language acquisition in children with autistic disorders. Autistic children suffer from qualitative deficits in social interactions and language skills, and have extremely restricted behavior patterns. The basis of these deficits might be caused by perceptual and cognitive characteristics of child-environment interactions. Preverbal bahavior was analyzed in the context of a three-term relationship among child, adult and object, and psychological and behavioral intervention was applied. Three examinations showed the efficacy of the following training for establishing preverbal behavior in children with autistic disorders: (1) training to enhance visual attention to social cues; (2) training at orienting a target object using eye movement, head turning, and arm and finger movement; (3) training for coordinating the child's eye movement with arm and finger movement; (4) training to establish responsiveness to social feedback from adults. © 1997, The Japan Society of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. All rights reserved.

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Yamamoto, J. (1997). Preverbal Communicative Behavior in Children with Autistic Disorders. Japan Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, 38(3), 297–303. https://doi.org/10.5112/jjlp.38.297

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