title: Increasing autistic children's daily spontaneous speech.
abstract: We investigated the effectiveness of teaching parents of 3 autistic boys to use a time delay procedure to increase their children's appropriate spontaneous speech in several naturally occurring daily settings (e.g., saying "good morning" in the morning). Generalization across settings and within settings across persons and locations was assessed. Variation in the children's spontaneous speech was also assessed. In addition procedural errors in the parents' use of time delay were calculated. Results indicated that all children increased their daily spontaneous speech and generalized their speech to other locations and persons.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, California 91711.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Charlop
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Trasowech
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012931:Social Environment; D014705:Verbal Behavior