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Brief Report: Vocabulary Acquisition for Children with Autism: Teacher or Computer Instruction

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This study examined the impact of computers on the vocabulary acquisition of young children with autism. Children's attention, motivation, and learning of words was compared in a behavioral program and an educational software program. The educational software program was designed to parallel the behavioral program, but it added perceptually salient qualities such as interesting sounds and object movement. Children with autism were more attentive, more motivated, and learned more vocabulary in the computer than in the behavioral program. Implications are considered for the development of computer software to teach vocabulary to children who have autism.

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  1. Communication, Culture, and Technology Program, and the Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

    Monique Moore

  2. Communication, Culture, and Technology Program, and the Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

    Sandra Calvert

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Moore, M., Calvert, S. Brief Report: Vocabulary Acquisition for Children with Autism: Teacher or Computer Instruction. J Autism Dev Disord 30, 359–362 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005535602064

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