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Artis, Jonet; Arunachalam, Sudha – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The goal of this work was to examine the semantic and syntactic properties of the vocabularies of autistic and non-autistic infants and toddlers to see if children in these two groups know different kinds of words. We focused on both receptive and expressive vocabularies. For expressive vocabulary, we looked only at the "active"…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Infants, Toddlers, Semantics
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Kristen Schroeder; Joana Rosselló; Teresa Ribalta Torrades; Wolfram Hinzen – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2023
Background & Aims: Narratives are regularly elicited as part of standardized assessments for autism spectrum conditions (ASC) such as the ADOS, but have rarely been utilized as linguistic data in their own right. We here aimed for a specific and comprehensive quantitative linguistic profile of such narratives across nominal, verbal, and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Observation, Diagnostic Tests, Bilingualism
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Bacon, Elizabeth C.; Osuna, Suzanna; Courchesne, Eric; Pierce, Karen – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Characterization of language in naturalistic settings in autism spectrum disorder has been lacking, particularly at young ages, but such information is important for parents, teachers, and clinicians to better support language development in real-world settings. Factors contributing to this lack of clarity include conflicting definitions of…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Toddlers
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Maltman, Nell; Hilvert, Elizabeth; Friedman, Laura; Sterling, Audra – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Expressive language impairments are common among school-age boys with fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autistic boys. Given the high cooccurrence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among individuals with FXS, cross-condition comparisons can elucidate the specificity of such impairments as they relate to ASD. Language samples can provide…
Descriptors: Males, Genetic Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Comorbidity
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Friedman, Laura; Lorang, Emily; Hilvert, Elizabeth; Sterling, Audra – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Question-asking serves as a tool to learn new information and is important in both academic and social settings. Boys with idiopathic autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and boys with fragile X syndrome and comorbid ASD (FXS + ASD) have similar social communication deficits, which may have downstream effects on their question-asking ability.…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Males