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Direct linkPrescott, Kathryn E.; Ellis Weismer, Susan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
This study investigated receptive and expressive language outcomes in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with and without a history of language/communication regression, employing three progressively less stringent definitions of regression. Data were derived from a large, longitudinal sample of children with ASD in which regression was…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Receptive Language, Expressive Language
Maltman, Nell; Friedman, Laura; Lorang, Emily; Sterling, Audra – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fragile X syndrome (FXS) are neurodevelopmental disorders with overlapping pragmatic language impairments. Prior work suggests pragmatic language differences may run in families. This study examined specific pragmatic difficulties (i.e., linguistic mazes and perseverations) in boys (9-18 years) with idiopathic…
Descriptors: Males, Genetic Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Autism
Barokova, Mihaela; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
The role of language in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), more specifically, its function in social communication and strong predictive power on future outcomes, warrants language assessments that have good psychometric properties that capture the heterogeneity of language ability found among diagnosed individuals. Given the rapid growth in…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Natural Language Processing, Outcome Measures
McFayden, Tyler C.; Fok, Megan; Ollendick, Thomas H. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
The current study investigated the impact of birth order on vocabulary and social language development in 1338 first-born and 1049 s-born autistic youth (M age = 9.03 years, SD = 3.57; 86.4% male) from the Simons Simplex Collection. Frequentist and Bayesian analyses revealed mixed findings in language development. There were no differences in…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Language Acquisition, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Trembath, David; Sutherland, Rebecca; Caithness, Teena; Dissanayake, Cheryl; Eapen, Valsamma; Fordyce, Kathryn; Frost, Grace; Iacono, Teresa; Mahler, Nicole; Masi, Anne; Paynter, Jessica; Pye, Katherine; Reilly, Sheena; Rose, Veronica; Sievers, Stephanie; Thirumanickam, Abirami; Westerveld, Marleen; Tucker, Madonna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Our aim was to explore insights from clinical practice that may inform efforts to understand and account for factors that predict spoken language outcomes for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder who use minimal verbal language. We used a qualitative design involving three focus groups with 14 speech pathologists to explore their views and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Verbal Communication
Koegel, Lynn Kern; Bryan, Katherine M.; Su, Pumpki L.; Vaidya, Mohini; Camarata, Stephen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
This systematic review examined definitions of "nonverbal" or "minimally verbal" and assessment measures used to evaluate communication in intervention studies focusing on improving expressive verbal communication in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We reviewed sample size, number of participants, participant age,…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Verbal Ability, Communication Skills
Dimitrova, Nevena; Mohr, Christine; Özçaliskan, Seyda; Adamson, Lauren B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) produce fewer deictic gestures, accompanied by delays/deviations in speech development, compared to typically-developing (TD) children. We ask whether children with ASD--like TD children--show right-hand preference in gesturing and whether right-handed gestures predict their vocabulary size in speech.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Nonverbal Communication, Expressive Language
Sourvinos, Stamatis; Mavropoulos, Aris; Kasselimis, Dimitrios S.; Korasidi, Andriani; Voukouni, Alexandra-Labrini; Papadopoulos, Panagiotis; Vlaseros, Spyridon; Damianos, Georgios; Potagas, Constantin; Damianos, Demosthenes – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Although water-based approaches have been shown to be beneficial for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), no study thus far has directly investigated the effects of such intervention programs on language skills. The present study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the Aquatic Speech and Language Therapy (ASLT) program, which is a new,…
Descriptors: Speech Therapy, Aquatic Sports, Intervention, Language Skills
Williams, Marian E.; Stein Duker, Leah I.; Vigen, Cheryl L. P.; Wylde, Chelsey; Cermak, Sharon A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Assessment of anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) most commonly includes parent questionnaires. However, due to the nature of the questions and verbal limitations often present in children with ASD, caregivers may have difficulty completing such measures. Caregivers of 144 children with ASD ages 6 to 12 completed the Child and…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Anxiety, Autism
Crandall, Madison Cloud; Bottema-Beutel, Kristen; McDaniel, Jena; Watson, Linda R.; Yoder, Paul J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
The relation between caregiver follow-in utterances with verbs presented in different states of dyadic engagement and later child expressive verb vocabulary in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was examined in 29 toddlers with ASD and their caregivers. Caregiver verb input in follow-in utterances presented during higher order supported…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Toddlers, Caregivers
Pecukonis, Meredith; Plesa Skwerer, Daniela; Eggleston, Brady; Meyer, Steven; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Numerous studies have investigated the predictors of language in pre-verbal toddlers and verbally fluent children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study investigated the concurrent relations among expressive language and a set of empirically-selected social communication variables--joint attention, imitation, and play--in a unique…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Habayeb, Serene; Tsang, Tawny; Saulnier, Celine; Klaiman, Cheryl; Jones, Warren; Klin, Ami; Edwards, Laura A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Infants show shifting patterns of visual engagement to faces over the first years of life. To explore the adaptive implications of this engagement, we collected eye-tracking measures on cross-sectional samples of 10-25-month-old typically developing toddlers (TD;N = 28) and those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD;N = 54). Concurrent language…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Acquisition, Infants
Macdonald, Dianne; Luk, Gigi; Quintin, Eve-Marie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and hyperlexia (HPL) have both advanced word reading skills and a reading comprehension disorder, alongside impaired oral language. We developed a unique, parent-supported, tablet-based intervention aiming to improve oral and reading comprehension at the word-, phrase- and sentence-level, for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Handheld Devices
Greenslade, Kathryn J.; Utter, Elizabeth A.; Landa, Rebecca J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Little empirical evidence exists about school-age pragmatic communication or predictors in siblings at heightened familial risk for ASD (HR) and low-risk (LR) controls. The "Pragmatic Rating Scale-School-Age" (Landa unpublished) was scored for 49 HR siblings and 18 LR controls at 8-12 years. Social-communication and language measures…
Descriptors: Siblings, Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Henry, Alyssa R.; Solari, Emily J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
This study investigates the effects of an integrated oral language and listening comprehension intervention for early elementary students with ASD. Students (n = 43) were randomly assigned to intervention or control comparison conditions, with intervention students receiving instruction in small groups of 3 or 4. Groups were led by special…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Oral Language, Listening Comprehension
