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Predicting Receptive-Expressive Vocabulary Discrepancies in Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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McDaniel, Jena; Yoder, Paul; Woynaroski, Tiffany; Watson, Linda R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Correlates of receptive-expressive vocabulary size discrepancies may provide insights into why language development in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) deviates from typical language development and ultimately improve intervention outcomes. Method: We indexed receptive-expressive vocabulary size discrepancies of 65 initially…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Children, Receptive Language
Examining Executive Function in the Second Year of Life: Coherence, Stability, and Relations to Joint Attention and Language
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Miller, Stephanie E.; Marcovitch, Stuart – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Several theories of executive function (EF) propose that EF development corresponds to children's ability to form representations and reflect on represented stimuli in the environment. However, research on early EF is primarily conducted with preschoolers, despite the fact that important developments in representation (e.g., language, gesture,…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Toddlers, Attention, Language
Children with ASD Use Joint Attention and Linguistic Skill in Pronoun Development
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Kelty-Stephen, Emma; Fein, Deborah A.; Naigles, Letitia R. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2020
Producing pronouns involves linguistic and social-cognitive knowledge because children must learn words and understand pronouns' changing referents. This study examined pronoun production longitudinally in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 15), whose social-cognition might impair pronoun use, and in typically developing (TD; n…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Attention Control, Social Cognition
Are Linguistic and Social-Pragmatic Abilities Separable in Neurotypical Infants and Infants Later Diagnosed with ASD?
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Yamashiro, Amy; Vouloumanos, Athena – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Adult humans process communicative interactions by recognizing that information is being communicated through speech (linguistic ability) and simultaneously evaluating how to respond appropriately (social-pragmatic ability). These abilities may originate in infancy. Infants understand how speech communicates in social interactions, helping them…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Interpersonal Competence, Speech Communication, Autism