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Shield, Aaron; Meier, Richard P. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have native exposure to a sign language such as American Sign Language (ASL) have received almost no scientific attention. This paper reports the first studies on a sample of five native-signing children (four deaf children of deaf parents and one hearing child of deaf parents; ages 4;6 to 7;5)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, American Sign Language, Autism, Deafness
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Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Barry, Johanna G.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2008
Some children with autism demonstrate poor nonword repetition--a deficit considered to be a psycholinguistic marker of specific language impairment (SLI). The present study examined whether there is an SLI subtype among children with autism. We compared the language abilities of children with SLI (n = 34, M age = 11;10 S.D. = 2;3), and children…
Descriptors: Autism, Language Impairments, Short Term Memory, Children