Response to early intervention programs in autism is variable. However, the factors
associated with positive versus poor treatment outcomes remain unknown. Hence the issue …

This review of children's language learning considers historical accounts of acquisition and
individual variation, recent advances in methods for studying language learning, research …

The fourth edition of Children With Hearing Loss: Develo** Listening and Talking, Birth to
Six is a dynamic compilation of important information for the facilitation of spoken language …

Purpose This study examined short-term predictive associations between 5 different types of
parent verbal responsiveness and later spoken vocabulary for 32 young children with a …

Although schools are the institution formally charged with educating our nation's youth, the
role of families and the home environment in students' development and academic …

This study tested the effect of a method of facilitating prelinguistic communication on parents'
responsivity and children's communication and productive language development. The …

Purpose This randomized group experiment compared the efficacy of 2 communication
interventions (Responsive Education and Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching [RPMT] and the …

There is growing evidence that cumulative exposure to highly responsive parenting styles
throughout the early childhood period may provide a variety of important child benefits in …

Joint attention, a foundational nonverbal social-communicative milestone that fails to
develop naturally in autism, was promoted for three toddlers with early-identified autism …

This randomized group experiment compared the efficacy of 2 communication interventions
(Responsive Education and Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching [RPMT] and the Picture Exchange …