Research: Speech and Language Pathology and Autistic Spectrum

Authored by Carduso, C., and Montenegro MS in The Spanish Journal of Psychology, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 686-695, (2009).

Article summary (posted Apr 20, 2010):

Allowing a student with autism consistent access to the same speech therapist may help progress in speech therapy.

The purpose of this study was to see if one form of speech therapy yielded better results than another form of speech therapy. The study had only eight children with autism spectrum disorders (ages 3 to 17 years old). The authors could not find a large difference between the speech therapy groups. The only difference that they found was that the group that had the same therapist for 12 months did slightly better than the group that changed therapists. The children in the group that changed therapists did worse at the end of therapy than they did at the start of therapy.

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autism, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), language, speech therapy, student, therapist, therapy
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