Communication Impairments In Children Research Articles

The Social Role of Imitation in Autism

Individuals with autism exhibit significant deficits in imitation skills. This article reviews the importance of imitation in typical development, focusing on the social function of imitation and its role in the development of social communication skills. Second, it reviews evidence suggesting an association between imitation deficits and social communication impairments in children with autism. Third, it discusses limitations of the current method for teaching imitation that targets only the learning function of imitation. Finally, it describes a new imitation intervention designed to teach the social use of imitation in young children with autism.

5327355 Voltage or reactive power control method and control device therefor : Chiba Tomio; Kido Mitsuyasu; Kawakami Junzo; Hirasawa Kunio; Matsui Yoshiaki Hitachi Ltd

Social communication impairment has been implicated in various mental health disorders. The primary aim of this review paper is to summarize the extant research on the development and application of technologies to address social communication deficits, conceptualized according to the four constructs outlined by the NIMH’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), transdiagnostically in children and adolescents. An exhaustive and systematic search yielded 69 peer-reviewed articles meeting all inclusion criteria (i.e., used technology, applied the technology to target impairment in at least one of four constructs of social communication, included a child or adolescent samples). We found limited use of technology for exploration of impairment in reception of non-facial communication, compared to the other social communication constructs. In addition, there has been an overwhelming focus on social communication impairment in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), with relatively few studies evaluating technology application in other clinical populations. Implications for future directions for technological interventions to treat social communication impairments transdiagnostically are discussed.

The Prevalence of Communication Disorders in Children: A Summary and Critical Review

This paper seeks to summarise and evaluate research into the prevalence of communication impairment in children. Such research is at times contradictory and at best fraught with difficulties of controllable and uncontrollable variables. Uncontrollable variables include the changing base of what constitutes a disorder, and differing identification techniques which provide different prevalence results. As well, issues of study design such as sample size, sample representativeness, and type of examiners are also important when considering the results of prevalence research.