Syntax Transformations in Speech Therapy Work on the Development of Phrasal Speech in Students with ASD

Abstract

The development of phrase speech is the most difficult area in speech therapy work with “speechless” schoolchildren with autism. The article describes speech therapy techniques for the development of syntax operations in schoolchildren with autism spectrum disorders and mild intellectual disabilities. Presented author’s speech therapy program for the development of arbitrary phrase speech in children with autism spectrum disorders combined with mild intellectual disability, based on the teachings of Noam Chomsky on grammatical transformations. The approbation of the speech therapy program was carried out by the author on the platform of the Federal Resource Center for the Organization of Comprehensive Support for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the period from 2016 to the present.

Keywords

• autism spectrum disorders
• Noam Chomsky
• verbal stimming
• echolalia
• syntax operations
• arbitrary phrase speech
• speech therapy programm