Proportion and Profile of Autistic Children Not Acquiring Spoken Language Despite Receiving Evidence-Based Early Interventions
Approximately one-third of children who had limited or no spoken language at baseline did not advance to spoken language stages following intervention. Development of spoken language was associated with modifiable factors at the child and intervention level.
Authors
- Suzannah Iadarola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6828-8379)
- Cheryl Dissanayake (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8771-4027)
- Giacomo Vivanti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4034-9157)
- Sally J. Rogers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0755-2900)
- Isabel M. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5525-2123)
- Diana L. Robins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7791-7031)
- Lynne Levato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8005-2892)
- Joshua B. Plavnick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2702-3603)
- Linda R. Watson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7722-406X)
- Sarah Dufek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6138-8393)
- Helen E. Flanagan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2360-749X)
- Ann P. Kaiser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-685X)
- Aubyn C. Stahmer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1596-9848)
- Catherine Lord (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5633-1253)
- Brian A. Boyd (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6482-9577)
- Ashley Zitter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5759-081X)
- Michael Lombardo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6780-8619)
- Tristram Smith
- So Hyun Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4269-0866)
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Dalhousie University (CA)
- La Trobe University (AU)
- Korea University (KR)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- UCLA Health (US)
- Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre (CA)
- University of Rochester Medical Center (US)
- Italian Institute of Technology (IT)
- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems (IT)
- Drexel University (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Michigan State University (US)
- Center for Autism and Related Disorders (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
- Published
- 2025-11-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2025.2579286
- Primary Topic
- Language Development and Disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00