The Effects of an Animated Exemplar/Nonexemplar Program To Teach the Relational Concept on to Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Delays Who Require AAC

Purpose: Children with autism spectrum disorders with little or no functional speech may benefit from visual symbols for communication. Although a variety of teaching paradigms are avail- able for teaching children to associate a single word with a visual symbol (e.g., dog with a drawing of a dog), there are fewer options to teach relationships between a concept with contextually dependent meanings and a single symbol (e.g., on with a single drawing). Method: An animated instructional program using a structured approach was used to teach the relational