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Sentence Production and Sentence Repetition in Autistic Adolescents and Young Adults: Linguistic Sensitivity to Finiteness Marking
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Teresa Girolamo; Samantha Ghali; Caroline Larson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Despite the clinical utility of sentence production and sentence repetition to identify language impairment in autism, little is known about the extent to which these tasks are sensitive to potential language variation. One promising method is strategic scoring, which has good clinical utility for identifying language impairment in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Repetition, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adolescents
Like, It's Important: The Frequency and Use of The Discourse Marker "Like" in Older Autistic Children
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Jones, Rebekah; Zane, Emily R.; Grossman, Ruth B. – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2022
Background & Aims: Discourse markers, such as "well" or "like," serve a variety of functions to support conversational reciprocity: filling pauses, aiding word-finding, and modulating turn-taking by holding the conversational floor. Previous research shows that autistic individuals use discourse markers less frequently than…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Usage, Incidence, Preadolescents
Normal but Different: Autistic Adolescents Who Score within Normal Ranges on Standardized Language Tests Produce Frequent Linguistic Irregularities in Spontaneous Discourse
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Emily R. Zane; Ruth B. Grossman – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
Background and aims: A substantial minority of autistic individuals score within typical ranges on standard language tests, suggesting that autism does not necessarily affect language acquisition. This idea is reflected in current diagnostic criteria for autism, wherein language impairment is no longer included. However, some work has suggested…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Tests, Language Impairments
Is Language Impaired in Spanish-Speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1?
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Alberto Sanchez Pedroche; Mario Valera-Pozo; Angelica Mateus Moreno; Maria Fernanda Lara Diaz; Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla; Daniel Adrover-Roig – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
The current diagnostic criteria for the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) include the possibility to specify concomitant language difficulties. Purpose: Our main aim was to explore whether children with ASD-Level 1 (ASD-L1) present difficulties in the acquisition of structural language, as little work has been done in this regard so far. As a…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Impairments, Children, Early Adolescents