{"id":303,"date":"2020-01-16T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/?page_id=303"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:34:18","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/current-research\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">In 2019 the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\">Center for Autism Research Excellence<\/a> at Boston University ran a study funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/\" style=\"color: #333333;\">Simons Foundation <\/a> looking to validate the newly developed toddler adaptation of ELSA, ELSA-T. This was done by comparing the two protocols using real time coding to assess whether these protocols were equivalent. Specifically, we analyzed specific variables in ELAN including,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">frequency of utterance<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333333;\">(number of utterances\/unit time)<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">length of utterance<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333333;\">(mean\/median length of utterance) and<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">number of conversational turns<span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> We found that, taken together, our findings provide support for the equivalency of these language elicitation protocols. Additionally, this supports the implementation of ELSA and ELSA-T in future clinical trials enrolling individuals with ASD, who span a wide age range, as an effective measure of expressive language. These protocols can be adapted to be culturally appropriate to meet the needs of each individual. ELSA and ELSA-T are implemented in a play-based\/naturalistic setting and thus, may be more representative of the individual\u2019s expressive language abilities, than other types of measures (e.g., standardized). Use of different versions of these protocols can be used pre- and post-intervention to assess expressive language skills over time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019 the\u00a0Center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University ran a study funded by the\u00a0Simons Foundation looking to validate the newly developed toddler adaptation of ELSA, ELSA-T. This was done by comparing the two protocols using real time coding to assess whether these protocols were equivalent. Specifically, we analyzed specific variables in ELAN including, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16096,"featured_media":0,"parent":80,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions\/407"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}