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Jessica Paynter; Kate O'Leary; Marleen Westerveld – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
We explored reading comprehension development in children on the spectrum from pre-school to the first (YOS1) and third year of schooling (YOS3). Children were first assessed on meaning-related skills in pre-school. Forty-one children completed follow-up assessments of reading comprehension, reading accuracy, and listening comprehension in YOS1.…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Reading Comprehension, Predictor Variables, Preschool Children
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Lucas, Rebecca; Norbury, Courtenay Frazier – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Many children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have reading comprehension difficulties, but the level of processing at which comprehension is most vulnerable and the influence of language phenotype on comprehension skill is currently unclear. We explored comprehension at sentence and passage levels across language phenotypes. Children with ASD…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Comparative Analysis