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Macdonald, Dianne; Luk, Gigi; Quintin, Eve-Marie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
A portion of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibit a strength in early word reading referred to as hyperlexia (HPL), yet it remains unclear what mechanisms underlie this strength. Typically developing children (TD) acquire phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge and language skills as precursors to word reading. We compared these…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Phonology, Emergent Literacy
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Petersen, Jill M.; Marinova-Todd, Stefka H.; Mirenda, Pat – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Studying lexical diversity in bilingual children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can contribute important information to our understanding of language development in this diverse population. In this exploratory study, lexical comprehension and production and overall language skills were investigated in 14 English-Chinese bilingual and 14…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Autism, Monolingualism, Language Skills