Autism Language Problems: Unnatural Speech & Conditional Discrimination Errors

Dr. Mary Barbera discusses autism language problems including unnatural speech and conditional discrimination errors.
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Children with delayed speech development will oftentimes have weird autism language, as some like to call it. You may say abnormal speech patterns, carrier phrases being used incorrectly, and overgeneralizing words. My number one advice to combat these issues is to avoid using carrier phrases. Additionally, we want to focus on single words, and teaching language as naturally as possible.

Issues like these can arise when we try to teach children how to open a door for example. When the child has learned the phrase “open door”, we may want to teach them how to open a bottle. But instead of saying “open bottle”, the child may now again say “open door.” This is a classic example, and very similar to something my son Lucas had gone through. This week’s video blog will review this issue and provide some guidance and tips on how to avoid these incorrect autism speech patterns.

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Dr. Mary Barbera. I fell into the autism world as an autism mom in 1999 when her first-born son, Lucas, was diagnosed with autism. Since then, she became a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and best-selling author of The Verbal Behavior Approach. Since 2015, she’s created 3 autism online courses based on applied behavior analysis for professionals and "gung-ho" parents. Whether you’re looking for autism parenting strategies, working with development delays in children, or in search of autism help for professionals, I can encourage you to subscribe to the channel and join me on my journey. I’ll be providing weekly autism resources that you don’t want to miss.