| Description |
viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Basic Principles -- Learning Theory and Language -- Overview of Language Program -- Brief Outline of Language Programs -- Basic Training Principles -- The Children -- Building the First Words and Labels -- Building a Verbal Topography -- Labeling Discrete Events -- Building Abstract Terms -- Relationships Among Objects and Events, and Other Abstract Terms -- Making Language Social and Spontaneous -- Conversation -- Giving and Seeking Information -- Grammatical Skills -- Recall -- Spontaneity -- Storytelling -- Informal Training -- Recordings of Spontaneous Verbalizations -- Reinforcement and the Maintenance of the Language Behavior -- Implications and Speculations -- Relationship to Other Data on Language -- Psycholinguistics and Some Speculations -- Suggestions for Program Changes from Language -- Development in Normal Children -- Suggestions for Program Changes from Discrimination Learning with Autistic Children -- Language Training Manuals -- Labeling Discrete Events -- Prepositions -- Pronouns -- Time Concepts -- Other Simple Abstractions -- Conversational Speech -- Verb Transformations -- Plural and Singular -- Recall -- Spontaneity Training -- Storytelling -- Some Further Problems in Teaching -- Stopping Echolalia -- Case Studies: Language Acquisition in Three Autistic Children -- Reeve -- Tommy -- Linda. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240). |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Subject |
Autism in children.
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Autistic children -- Education -- Language arts.
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Behavior modification.
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Autistic Disorder.
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Behavior Therapy.
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Language Development.
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Child.
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Infant.
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| ISBN |
0470150653 |
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