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The findings from this study suggest that the social impairments and motor findings defining ASD don't necessarily always result in speech delay or disorder. They also showed us that children at risk for ASD who don't receive diagnoses later on may be able to leverage their social ability to overcome initial speech delays. While these results probably don't apply to more severely affected toddlers, they do help us make better therapeutic choices, byhighlighting areas of strength in some young children with ASD.
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Children with ASD don't always show us what they know, but it's as important that we know what they can do as that we know what they need help with. This article provides a method for determining more accurately what these toddlers do know.
Dr. Karen V. Chenausky
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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This page is a summary of: Vocalization Rate and Consonant Production in Toddlers at High and Low Risk for Autism, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, April 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2016_jslhr-s-15-0400.
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