Nesrhtens…..

For some children with autism receiving EIBI the acquisition of the first expressive words is a great challenge, and some children never develop a functional expressive repertoire. And there has been investigated several techniques for facilitating those first words; non-verbal imitation, physical prompting etc. In this issue of Journal of Autism and other Developmental Disorders (39) Kogel, Shirotova and Koegel has published a paper titled “Brief Report: Using Individualized Orienting Cues to Facilitate First-Word Acquisition in Non-Responders with Autism“.

This study investigatet whether individualized orienting cues could be identified, and wehter their presentation would result in vergal expressive words, and the results indicates that the use of orienting cues increased corredt responding to verbal models as well as subsequent word use. This study contributes to increase the research on techniques that praticioners can use with those children who do not show fuctional speach, and will by that be a useful contribution.

This article is published on open access, stating which positively increase the availibility.

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