Maternal responsivity predicts the prelinguistic communication intervention that facilitates generalized intentional communication.

Maternal Responsivity Mediates the Relationship Between Prelinguistic Intentional Communication and Later Language

Relative treatment effects of two prelinguistic communication interventions on language development in toddlers with developmental delays vary by maternal characteristics.

This paper tests whether two prelinguistic communication interventions have a differential effect on productive and receptive language development 6 and 12 months after the end of treatment. We predicted that treatment effects on language development would vary as a function of pretreatment maternal responsivity or amount of mothers' formal education. Fifty-eight prelinguistic children with dev...

Important Distinctions in Measuring Maternal Responses to Communication in Prelinguistic Children with Disabilities

Two research hypotheses were tested in the research reported here: The first was that nonlinguistic maternal responses to intentional child communication, but not to preintentional communication, will predict later intentional communication but not later language development. The second hypothesis was that linguistic mapping of intentional communication, but not of preintentional communication,...

Facilitating prelinguistic communication skills in young children with developmental delay. II: Systematic replication and extension.

Four children with mental retardation were studied in the context of a multiple baseline across subjects design. Staff members used a modified version of the milieu teaching method to facilitate intentional requesting. The results replicated the finding that a modified version of milieu teaching was effective in facilitating the use of intentional requesting by children with developmental delay...

Early effects of responsivity education/prelinguistic milieu teaching for children with developmental delays and their parents.

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of a 6-month course of responsivity education/prelinguistic milieu teaching (RE/PMT) for children with developmental delay and RE/PMT's effects on parenting stress in a randomized clinical trial. METHOD Fifty-one children, age 24-33 months, with no more than 10 expressive words or signs, were randomly assigned to treatment/no-treatment groups. Thirteen childre...