Publications by authors named "Marcia Goldfeld"
Background: echolalia is one of the most common symptoms among the language characteristics in Autism.
Aim: to provide a detailed literature revision about the role of echolalia in the language development process of autistic individuals, and to discuss the use of this language feature in the speech-language clinical practice. The researches show classifications and analysis criterions of echolalia in a discursive context.
Background: The importance of child's play and its assessment for the therapy of deaf children.
Aim: To analyze the organization of the act of playing between hearing mothers and deaf children, how it can be assessed and its relation with language acquisition.
Method: Analysis of video recordings of six deaf children playing with their mothers in three different moments, with intervals between the recordings of 6 months each.