A narrative review about strategies to enhance communicative skills in children with high risk of autism spectrum disorders

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José Antonio Sazo Ávila
Universidad de Talca, Chile
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4004-7682

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a collection of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impairments in social communication and interaction. Early markers can predict this disorder about 18 months of age and could be related with communication skills: low rates of interaction and communication acts, eye gaze and reciprocal vocalizations. Thus, a speech and language early intervention could be enhancing the communicative outcomes.

This narrative review was conducted by the Prisma method, with the purpose to analyze what are the intervention strategies to enhance nonverbal communication skills in preschool children with High Risk of ASD. Three databases were reviewed (PubMed, Science Direct and ASHAWire) with the following MeSH terms: ASD, early intervention, nonverbal communication, preschool.

Early intervention in nonverbal communication skills will be too important in the development of preschool children with ASD. The core strategies were augmentative and alternative communication, visual supports and technologies could improve forms (gestures, eye gaze, pictures and speech - generating devices) and communicative functions (obtain, social, refuse and shares information).

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Published: Dec 19, 2022
Issue: No. 63 (2022): UCMaule
Section: Estudios
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29035/ucmaule.63.81
Keywords: ASD, early intervention, nonverbal communication, preschoolers, scoping review

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Sazo Ávila, J. A. (2022). A narrative review about strategies to enhance communicative skills in children with high risk of autism spectrum disorders. UCMaule, 63, 81-95. https://doi.org/10.29035/ucmaule.63.81
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