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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2023

Measurements of Spontaneous Communication Initiations in Children with Autism in Preschool through Third Grade Classrooms.

Sandy Luong Birkeneder, Nicole Sparapani

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sandy Luong BirkenederSchool of Education and the UC Davis MIND Institute, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, 95616, Davis, CA, USA. sbirkeneder@ucdavis.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4515-8915
Nicole SparapaniSchool of Education and the UC Davis MIND Institute, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, 95616, Davis, CA, USA.
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education R324A130350
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We utilized classroom video observations to examine the frequency and function of spontaneous communication in 112 preschool-3rd grade children with autism within 57 classrooms. Children initiated 7.53 instances (SD = 9.42) of spontaneous communication on average within a 12-minute sample, a rate of 0.69 initiations per minute. Autism features, receptive and expressive language, and adaptive functioning were associated with communication rate. A 4-factor model of spontaneous communication functions exhibited the best relative and absolute fit to the data. Findings highlight, and begin to explain, variability in spontaneous communication children used in classrooms, link individual developmental characteristics to communicative initiations, and provide evidence for conceptualizing and measuring spontaneous communication in learners with autism across classroom activities. Implications and future directions are discussed.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderChildChild, PreschoolCommunicationHumansLanguageSchoolsAutismClassroomsCommunication initiationsCommunicative functionsRate of communicationSpontaneous communication

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PMID36222991
PMCPMC9986201
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