… A Roadmap for the Autism Research Community to Learn from and Follow … A Roadmap for the Autism Research Community to Learn from and Follow Topics Research … Neurodevelopmental Disorders (SPAN) Lab . “If you look really carefully, you can get information about their potential ability to produce speech. We found even … for minimally verbal kids with autism.  “In the course of that, I was working to get the kids to just repeat simple words,” remembers Chenausky. “I really began to …