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Predicting Spoken Language Level in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Stone, Wendy L., Yoder, Paul J.·2001·Autism

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Thirty-five children who received an autism spectrum diagnosis at the age of 2 years (24 with autism, 11 with PDD-NOS) were re-evaluated 2 years later to examine factors related to the development of spoken language. Child variables (play level, motor imitation ability and joint attention) and environmental variables (socioeconomic status and hours of speech/language therapy between ages 2 and 3) were used to predict an aggregate measure of language outcome at age 4. After controlling for age 2 language skills, the only significant predictors were motor imitation and number of hours of sther speech/language therapy. Implications of these results for understanding the early developmental course of autism spectrum disorders and the effects of intervention are discussed.

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“Longitudinal studies of young children with autism reveal that gestural imitation predicts the development of expressive language (Stone et al., 1997), receptive language (Charman et al., 2003) or both ([Stone and Yoder, 2001] and [Toth et al., 2006]).”
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Examination of correlates of different imitative functions in young children with autism spectrum disorders
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“Oral -and manual- motor skills are predictors of speech fluency [Gernsbacher, Sauer, Geye, Schweigert, & Hill Goldsmith, 2008; Stone & Yoder, 2001; Thurm, Lord, Lee & Newschaffer, 2007], and gesture use is one of the best predictors of receptive and expressive language skills [Luyster et al., 2008].”
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“However, RIT was developed on the grounds that naturalistic action imitation is a critical social learning tool that contributes to rapid advances in social and cognitive development in infants and children (Meltzoff and Moore, 1977; Bates et al., 1979; Fiese, 1990; Uzgiris, 1991; Carpenter et al., 1998; Charman et al…”
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Variability in Verbal and Nonverbal Communication in Infants at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Predictors and Outcomes
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“…in and benefiting from traditional group instructional arrangements including tolerating intermittent reinforcement, turn-taking, and maintaining attention to instructional stimuli (Greer et al. 2006; Leekam et al. 1998; Masia and Chase 1997; Sallows and Graupner 2005; Stone and Yoder 2001).”
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Predictors of longer‐term development of expressive language in two independent longitudinal cohorts of language‐delayed preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Bal, V. H., Fok, M., Lord, C., Smith, I. M., Mirenda, P., Szatmári, P., Vaillancourt, T., Volden, J., Waddell, C., Zwaigenbaum, L., et al. (2019) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/jcpp.13117 · Cited by 81
“For example, Stone and Yoder (2001) studied predictors of spoken language in a small sample (n = 35) of 23-35 month olds (Mean age = 30.9) with average expressive language estimates of 12.5 months (ranging from 3-28 months) from the Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development Revised (Hedrick…”
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The Relationship Between Unstandardized and Standardized Alpha, True Reliability, and the Underlying Measurement Model
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“However, the relationship between these coefficients is not well understood and researchers sometimes report the wrong coefficient given the analyses they perform (e.g., Davis, 1980; Fresko, Kfir, & Nasser, 1997; Stone & Yoder, 2001).”
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The Social Communication Assessment for Toddlers with Autism (SCATA): An Instrument to Measure the Frequency, Form and Function of Communication in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Drew, A., Baird, G., Taylor, E., Milne, E., & Charman, T. (2006) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/s10803-006-0224-9 · Cited by 71
“Not only do children with autism show impairments in non-verbal communication compared to comparison groups, but within groups of children with autism, individual differences in non-verbal communication are also associated with later language and social outcomes (Charman et al., 2003; Mundy et al., 1990; Sigman & Rusk…”
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Robot-based intervention may reduce delay in the production of intransitive gestures in Chinese-speaking preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder
So, W., Wong, M. K.-Y., Lam, W.-Y., Cheng, C., Yang, J.-H., Huang, Y., Ng, P., Wong, W.-L., Ho, C.-L., Yeung, E. K. L., et al. (2018) · Molecular Autism · doi:10.1186/s13229-018-0217-5 · Cited by 71
“Previous research has shown that better imitation skills were associated with language gains, which were found immediately after imitation training as well as a few years later, in children with ASD [14, 75, 76].”
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Early social communicative behaviours of preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder during interaction with their mothers
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Infant EEG theta modulation predicts childhood intelligence
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Language acquisition can be truly atypical in autism: Beyond joint attention
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“Given the intrinsic links between gesture and speech from an evolutionary and neurobiological perspective, it is not surprising that deficiencies in gestural communication, imitation, and nonverbal cognitive ability predict later levels of expressive language (Stone and Yoder 2001).”
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Motor performance, praxis, and social skills in autism spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder
Kilroy, E., Ring, P., Hossain, A., Nalbach, A., Butera, C. D., Harrison, L., Jayashankar, A., Vigen, C. L. P., Aziz‐Zadeh, L., & Cermak, S. A. (2022) · Autism Research · doi:10.1002/aur.2774 · Cited by 65
“…ability (Charman et al., 2000; Dawson & Adams, 1984; Ingersoll & Meyer, 2011; McDuffie et al., 2007; Pittet et al., 2022; Poon et al., 2012; Stone & Yoder, 2001; Toth et al., 2007), joint attention (Carpenter et al., 2002; Ingersoll & Schreibman, 2006; Rogers et al., 2003), functional and…”
Teaching Generalized Imitation Skills to a Preschooler With Autism Using Video Modeling
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The effectiveness of interventions for children with autism
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“Recent findings by Stone and Yoder (2001) , in showing that the amount of time in language therapy from the age of 2 tends to predict outcome at 4, might also be cited in support of the argument that ‘‘earlier ¼ better’’.”
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Early exploration of one’s own body, exploration of objects, and motor, language, and cognitive development relate dynamically across the first two years of life.
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Brief Report: Perception of Body Posture—What Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder might be Missing
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“A number of recent studies have documented greater effectiveness of interventions that include an imitation component over those that do not (Charman & Howlin, 2003; Dawson & Galpert, 1990; Ingersoll, 2003; Odom et al., 2003; Rogers, Hepburn, Stackhouse, & Wehner, 2003; Stone & Yoder, 2001).”
Body Odors Promote Automatic Imitation in Autism
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“Second, researchers have demonstrated that motor imitation deficits are the best predictors for the acquisition of social behaviors, such as language skills (16,17), and are supposed to prevent the development of joint attention in the autistic population (18).”
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Age-Related Differences in Gaze Following: Does the Age of the Face Matter?
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“…difficulties such as poor social communication and interaction skills (Charman, 2003; Mundy, Sigman, & Kasari, 1990; Sigman & Ruskin, 1999; Stone & Yoder, 2001), it is important to further investigate age differences in gaze following as this may contribute to findings of socially…”
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Visual event-related potentials to biological motion stimuli in autism spectrum disorders
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“Several empirical studies have supported these ideas (Charman et al., 2000; Mundy, 2003; Mundy, Fox, & Card, 2003; Stone & Yoder, 2001 ).”
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Authors: Stone, W. L., & Yoder, P. J.
Affiliations: Vanderbilt University (US)
ORCID: Stone, Wendy L.
Yoder, Paul J.
Venue: Autism
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2001-12
Volume: 5
Issue: 4
Pages: 341-361
ISSN: 1362-3613 (ISSN-L)
1461-7005
DOI: 10.1177/1362361301005004002
OpenAlex: W2138574607
Semantic Scholar: ccebaeb055fe7736f7f5aff5dc2832d33a57498c
Cited by: 340
References: 74
Citations by year: 2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 27 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 12
FWCI: 1.75
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Autism (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Institutes of Health (5r29mh050620-05)
National Institute of Mental Health (MH-50620)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
Keywords: autism spectrum disorder, speech development, language outcome prediction, motor imitation, joint attention, speech therapy, socioeconomic status, early intervention, toddlers, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified
MeSH terms: Autistic Disorder, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Language Disorders, Language Therapy, Male, Prognosis, Socioeconomic Factors, Time Factors, Early Intervention, Educational

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