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Brief report: The communicative role of a highly frequent repeated utterance in the conversations of an autistic boy

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  1. Child Language Laboratory, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona, USA

    Truman E. Coggins

  2. Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, USA

    Robert Frederickson

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This project was completed while T. Coggins was supported by a U.S. Department of Education training grant to the University of Arizona entitled “Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Leadership Training and Clinical Research, Training and Administration” (Grant No. G008630088, Linda Swisher, Principal Investigator). R. Frederickson was supported by a research grant from the Trust Fund Board, Washington Association for Retarded Citizens (Truman E. Coggins, Principal Investigator). We are grateful to Bryan and his father for their patience, commitment, and uplifting spirits. We are also indebted to Vanja Holm for her overall administrative, clinical, and personal support, and the two anonymous reviews for their constructive suggestions. Finally, we express our gratitude to Lesley Olswang and Linda Swisher for their insightful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.

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Coggins, T.E., Frederickson, R. Brief report: The communicative role of a highly frequent repeated utterance in the conversations of an autistic boy. J Autism Dev Disord 18, 687–694 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02211886

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