Children with ASD can use gaze in support of word recognition and learning.

Background: Many children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) struggle to understand familiar words and learn unfamiliar words. We explored the extent to which these problems reflect deficient use of probabilistic gaze in the extra-linguistic context.

Method: Thirty children with ASD and 43 with typical development (TD) participated in a spoken word recognition and mapping task.

The "Iowa Way" revisited.

Unlabelled: This paper attempts to bridge the gap between past and present stuttering therapy approaches. Specifically, the ideas and methods of Wendell Johnson and Dean Williams are compared to current approaches used in treating mental illness and communication disorders in which there is an emphasis on focusing on what is "right" with the individual and spending less time focusing on the "disorder". There is particular emphasis on tying Johnson's and Williams' overall philosophy to modern psychological approaches rooted in "Positive Psychology", to highlight how these early ideas in stuttering therapy may help us to discover the common factors that underlie the success of several different stuttering therapy approaches, independent of the specific techniques employed.