Quantifying Question Asking in Young Autistic Children: Exploring the Role of Context.
Questions are an important component of social communication. Autistic children experience difficulties in social communication, and question asking is a common target of services. We know little about how context shapes question asking in autistic children. The current study quantifies the frequenc...
| Publicado en: | Seminars in Speech & Language Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 71 - 86 |
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Thieme Medical Publishing Inc.
Mar2026
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