{"id":5141,"date":"2019-07-18T11:28:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T15:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/?page_id=5141"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:15:17","slug":"elsa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/research\/past-research\/elsa\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/autism\/files\/2019\/08\/ELSA-header-e1565117253274.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5655 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/files\/2019\/08\/ELSA-header-e1565117253274.png 828w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/files\/2019\/08\/ELSA-header-e1565117253274-650x178.png 650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/files\/2019\/08\/ELSA-header-e1565117253274-768x211.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eliciting Language Samples for Analysis\u202f(ELSA)<\/strong> is a protocol designed to collect natural language samples (NLS) from children and adolescents with varying language profiles. Our research study examined how children with autism use their language and communication in a naturalistic play-based context.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\">Who participated?<\/span><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/autism\/files\/2019\/08\/ELSA-toys-e1564758566152-414x300.jpg\" alt=\"image of toys\" width=\"414\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5490 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/files\/2019\/08\/ELSA-toys-e1564758566152-414x300.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/files\/2019\/08\/ELSA-toys-e1564758566152-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/files\/2019\/08\/ELSA-toys-e1564758566152-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/files\/2019\/08\/ELSA-toys-e1564758566152.jpg 1521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children age 4-7 with Autism Spectrum Disorder<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\">What did the study in<\/span><span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\">volve?<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Participants visited the center for one to two visits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Autism Assessment (~45 minutes)<\/li>\n<li>Intelligence Measure (~35 minutes)<\/li>\n<li>2 play-based language tasks (~20 minutes each)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, there were 2 questionnaires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demographic Questionnaire (10 minutes to complete)<\/li>\n<li>Adaptive Behaviors Questionnaire (20 minutes to complete)<span style=\"color: #6aa84f;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/autism\/files\/2019\/09\/CARE-website-elsa-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"202\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5873 alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Participating families were compensated for their time, and received a fun toy at each visit, along with an individualized report about the child upon request.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/elsa\/\">our ELSA Protocol<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>This project was supported by the Simons Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Eliciting Language Samples for Analysis\u202f(ELSA) is a protocol designed to collect natural language samples (NLS) from children and adolescents with varying language profiles. Our research study examined how children with autism use their language and communication in a naturalistic play-based context. Who participated? Children age 4-7 with Autism Spectrum Disorder What did the study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16476,"featured_media":0,"parent":3816,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5141"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6339,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5141\/revisions\/6339"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}