Differential responses to child communicative behavior of parents of toddlers with ASD.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

The quality of parent verbal input-diverse vocabulary that is well-matched to the child's developmental level within interactions that are responsive to their interests-has been found to positively impact child language skills. For typically developing (TD) children, there is evidence that more advanced linguistic and social development differentially elicits higher quality parent input, suggesting a bidirectional relationship between parent and child. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if toddlers with ASD also differentially elicit parental verbal input by (1) analyzing the quality of parent input to the communicative behavior of their toddlers with ASD, (2) examining if parents respond differentially to more advanced toddler communicative behavior, as

SUBMITTER: De Froy AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9620677 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature