We investigated the effectiveness of teaching parents of 3 autistic boys to use a time delay procedure to increase their children\u27s appropriate spontaneous speech in several naturally occurring daily settings (e.g., saying good morning in the morning). Generalization across settings and within settings across persons and locations was assessed. Variation in the children\u27s spontaneous speech was also assessed. In addition procedural errors in the parents\u27 use of time delay were calculated. Results indicated that all children increased their daily spontaneous speech and generalized their speech to other locations and persons
