Brooke R Ingersoll

Nov 21, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Brooke R Ingersoll |Mya Howard |Alice Carter |Devon Oosting

INTRODUCTION Imitation skills emerge within the first year of life and serve an important role in early social communication development, by facilitating the acquisition of language and reciprocal interactions (Bates et al., 1979; Meltzoff, 2005; Nieto & Campos, 2022). Autistic children show delays in imitation skills; they imitate less often and are less precise in their imitation than their non-autistic peers (Edwards, 2014; Williams et al., 2004).