1. Spoken Language Change in Children on the Autism Spectrum Receiving Community-Based Interventions.
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Trembath, David, Stainer, Matt, Caithness, Teena, Dissanayake, Cheryl, Eapen, Valsamma, Fordyce, Kathryn, Frewer, Veronica, Frost, Grace, Hudry, Kristelle, Iacono, Teresa, Mahler, Nicole, Masi, Anne, Paynter, Jessica, Pye, Katherine, Quan, Shannon, Shellshear, Leanne, Sutherland, Rebecca, Sievers, Stephanie, Thirumanickam, Abirami, and Westerveld, Marleen F.
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PHONOLOGICAL awareness ,COMMUNITY health services ,REGRESSION analysis ,AUTISM ,RESEARCH funding ,COMMUNICATION ,EARLY intervention (Education) ,ODDS ratio ,CHILDREN - Abstract
We assessed the spoken language of 73 preschool aged children on the autism spectrum receiving community-based early intervention at two time points, approximately 7 months apart. Using the Spoken Language Benchmarks, there was a small non-significant change in the proportion of children transitioning from below, to at or above, Phase 3 (word combinations). Using binomial regression, a model comprising seven of nine clinician-proposed child-related predictors explained 64% of the variance. None of the predictors were individually significant, although a large effect size (OR = 16.71) was observed for children's baseline rate of communicative acts. The findings point to substantial unmet clinical need in children with minimal verbal language, but also the relevance of clinician-proposed predictors of their spoken language outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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