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Kelty-Stephen, Emma; Fein, Deborah A.; Naigles, Letitia R. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2020
Producing pronouns involves linguistic and social-cognitive knowledge because children must learn words and understand pronouns' changing referents. This study examined pronoun production longitudinally in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 15), whose social-cognition might impair pronoun use, and in typically developing (TD; n…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Attention Control, Social Cognition
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Novogrodsky, Rama; Edelson, Lisa R. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2016
This study explored pronoun production and general syntactic abilities in story retelling and story generation among children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Twenty-four children diagnosed with ASD, ages 6;1-14;3 and 17 typically-developing (TD) children ages 5;11-14;4 participated in the study. The linguistic measures for general syntax…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Usage, Syntax
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Carmody, Dennis P.; Lewis, Michael – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2012
In order to examine the roles of mental age, social interaction, and communication in self-representation abilities, typically-developing children were compared with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Typically-developing children (TD, n = 66) and children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD, n = 20), including subgroups of autistic disorder…
Descriptors: Play, Mental Age, Autism, Interpersonal Relationship