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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017

Predicting Intentional Communication in Preverbal Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Micheal Sandbank, Tiffany Woynaroski, Linda R Watson, Elizabeth Gardner, Bahar Keçeli Kaysili, Paul Yoder

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Adapting measures of motor imitation for use by caregivers in virtual contexts: Reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Micheal SandbankDepartment of Special Education, University of Texas at Austin, 1912 Speedway, STOP D5300, Austin, TX, 78712, USA. michealpaigesandbank@gmail.com.
Tiffany WoynaroskiHearing and Speech Sciences Department, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Linda R WatsonDepartment of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Elizabeth GardnerVanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Bahar Keçeli KaysiliHearing and Speech Sciences Department, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Paul YoderSpecial Education Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Vanderbilt University · USVanderbilt University Medical Center · USThe University of Texas at Austin · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Research Project: Sensory and Multisensory Contributions to AutismU54HD083211 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI DYKENS, ELISABETH MAY · 2015 to 2019
$7.1M
Predicting Useful Speech in Children With AutismR01DC006893 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI YODER, PAUL J · 2009 to 2012
$2.9M
The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR)KL2TR000446 · NCATS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BERNARD, GORDON RAPHAEL · 2012 to 2016
$2.8M
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR000446NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD083211NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC006893
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intentional communication has previously been identified as a value-added predictor of expressive language in preverbal preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder. In the present study, we sought to identify value-added predictors of intentional communication. Of five theoretically-motivated putative predictors of intentional communication measured early in the study (at study entry and 4 months after), three had significant zero-order correlations with later intentional communication (12 months after study entry) and were thus added to a linear model that predicted later intentional communication scores controlling for initial intentional communication scores at study entry. After controlling for initial intentional communication, early motor imitation was the only predictor that accounted for a significant amount of variance in children's later intentional communication.

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CommunicationImitative BehaviorIntentionAutism Spectrum DisorderChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansInfantLongitudinal StudiesMalePlay and PlaythingsPredictive Value of TestsAutism spectrum disorderIntentional communicationLongitudinalMotor imitationPredictors

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PMID28258351
PMCPMC5440247
OpenAlexW2591623748

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