title: [Language therapy results with adolescents of the autistic spectrum].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Results of language therapy with adolescents and children with autistic spectrum disorders.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to identify changes, after a six-month period of speech-language therapy, in a group of adolescents and to compare them with a group of children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data referring to the communicative profile and social-cognitive performance of 12 adolescents and 12 children were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Just one of the 10 observed areas presented meaningful progress for the group of adolescents and 5 areas presented progress for group of children.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results reinforce the importance of language therapy for autistic children, as more progress can be obtained at this age.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia e Terapia Ocupcational da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. fernandadreux@aol.com
authors.forename: Fernanda Dreux Miranda
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Fernandes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007804:Language Development; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D007807:Language Tests; D007808:Language Therapy; D012938:Social Perception; D013070:Speech Therapy