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  1. Expressive Language Development in an Autistic Bimodal Bilingual Child: A 10-Year Case Study

    Article • Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, January 2026, SAGE Publications

    Aaron Shield

  2. Minimally-Signing Autism in Deaf Children of Deaf Parents: A Case Series

    Article • Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, January 2026, SAGE Publications

    Aaron Shield

  3. Language development in bimodal bilingual autistic children: a case series of hearing children with deaf signing parents

    Article • Frontiers in Language Sciences, October 2025, Frontiers

    Aaron Shield

  4. A Case Study of a Deaf Autistic Adolescent’s Affective and Linguistic Expressions

    Article • Behavioral Sciences, October 2025, MDPI AG

    Aaron Shield

  5. Attention-regulation strategies used by Deaf parents of deaf autistic children: A pilot study

    Article • Enfance, October 2025, CAIRN

    Aaron Shield

  6. Variability in the Representation of the ASL Fingerspelled Alphabet

    Article • Sign Language Studies, March 2025, Project Muse

    Aaron Shield

  7. A case study of the American Sign Language patterns of a natively-exposed Deaf autistic signer

    Article • Language Acquisition, December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Aaron Shield

  8. Editorial: Modality and language acquisition: how does the channel through which language is expressed affect how children and adults are able to learn?

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2023, Frontiers

    Aaron Shield

  9. Educational Strategies for Deaf Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

    Article • Perspectives on Early Childhood Psychology and Education, February 2023, Pace University Press

    Aaron Shield

  10. Are palm reversals the pronoun reversals of sign language? Evidence from a fingerspelling task

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2022, Frontiers

    Aaron Shield

  11. Concurrent Predictors of Supplementary Sign Use in School-Aged Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, October 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Karen Chenausky, Dr Aaron Shield, Alison Verdes, Aaron Shield

  12. The Relationship Between Single-Word Speech Severity and Intelligibility in Childhood Apraxia of Speech

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, March 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Jordan R Green, Karen Chenausky, Aaron Shield

  13. Assessing Signed Language Development in Deaf/Signing Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Article • January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Aaron Shield

  14. Factor analysis of signs of childhood apraxia of speech

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, September 2020, Elsevier

    Aaron Shield

  15. Conversational correlates of rapid social judgments of children and adolescents with and without ASD

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Aaron Shield

  16. The Source of Palm Orientation Errors in the Signing of Children with ASD: Imitative, Motoric, or Both?

    Article • Brain Sciences, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Aaron Shield

  17. The Production of Pronouns and Verb Inflections by Italian Children with ASD: A New Dataset in a Null Subject Language

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Aaron Shield

  18. Learning an Embodied Visual Language: Four Imitation Strategies Available to Sign Learners

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2018, Frontiers

    Aaron Shield

  19. Sign Language Echolalia in Deaf Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Frances Cooley, Aaron Shield

  20. Impaired praxis in gesture imitation by deaf children with autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Aaron Shield

  21. Differences in praxis performance and receptive language during fingerspelling between deaf children with and without autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Autism, December 2016, SAGE Publications

    Aaron Shield

  22. Relations between language and cognition in native‐signing children with autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Autism Research, March 2016, Wiley

    Aaron Shield

  23. The Use of Sign Language Pronouns by Native-Signing Children with Autism

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Aaron Shield, Aaron Shield

  24. 4. The Acquisition of Sign Language by Deaf Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Article • December 2014, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Aaron Shield

  25. A Summary of Current Understanding Regarding Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

    Article • Seminars in Speech and Language, October 2014, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Aaron Shield, Aaron Shield

  26. Clinical Use of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule–Second Edition with Children Who Are Deaf

    Article • Seminars in Speech and Language, October 2014, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Aaron Shield, Aaron Shield

  27. Preliminary Findings of Similarities and Differences in the Signed and Spoken Language of Children with Autism

    Article • Seminars in Speech and Language, October 2014, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr Aaron Shield, Aaron Shield

  28. The Acquisition of Sign Language by Deaf Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Article • February 2014, JSTOR

    Aaron Shield

  29. Palm reversal errors in native-signing children with autism

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, November 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Aaron Shield, Aaron Shield

  30. The gestures ASL signers use tell us when they are ready to learn math

    Article • Cognition, June 2012, Elsevier

    Aaron Shield

  31. The signing of Deaf children with autism: Lexical phonology and perspective-taking in the visual-spatial modality

    Article • Sign Language & Linguistics, August 2011, John Benjamins

    Dr Aaron Shield, Aaron Shield