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Alejandro Cano Villagrasa; Nadia Porcar Gozalbo; Beatriz Valles González; Miguel López-Zamora – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and epilepsy represent a comorbidity that negatively influences the proper development of linguistic competencies, particularly in receptive language, in the pediatric population. This group displays impairments in the auditory comprehension of both simple and complex grammatical structures, significantly limiting…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Epilepsy, Comorbidity, Language Proficiency
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Eleni Peristeri; Xanthi Kamona; Spyridoula Varlokosta – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Purpose: Relative clauses present a well-known processing asymmetry between object-extracted and subject-extracted dependencies across both typical and atypical populations. The present study aimed at exploring the comprehension of object and subject relative clauses as conceptualized by the Relativized Minimality framework in autistic children…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Executive Function, Control Groups, Comparative Analysis
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Peristeri, Eleni; Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Twenty-eight Albanian-Greek bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder and 28 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder but no language impairment, along with 28 typically-developing, age-, Performance IQ- and socioeconomic status-matched bilingual children were asked to produce two expository texts which were coded for spelling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Polyanskaya, Irina; Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Brauner, Torben; Blackburn, Patrick – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
This study investigates the role of recursive language and working memory (WM) in second-order false belief skills in Danish-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 62; 8 females) and typical development (n = 41; 15 females), ages 6-16. Second-order false belief skills correlated with receptive grammar, vocabulary, and age;…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Short Term Memory
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Georgiou, Georgios P.; Theodorou, Elena – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This study aims to investigate the perception of phonological, grammatical, and semantic structures by 8 children (age range: 8;2-9;5) with developmental language disorders (DLD). Another 8 age-matched (age range: 8;4-10;0) typically developing (TD) children served as controls. The results demonstrated that children with DLD had lower performance…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Phonology
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Gonzalez-Barrero, Ana Maria; Nadig, Aparna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
We examined the lexical and grammatical skills of monolingual and bilingual school-age children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Thirteen monolingual and thirteen bilingual children with ASD without intellectual disability, were compared on standardized measures of vocabulary and morphology. Findings revealed that bilingual children performed…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grammar, Bilingual Students, Children
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Su, Yi (Esther); Naigles, Letitia R.; Su, Lin-Yan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Data from children with ASD who are learning Indo-European languages indicate that (a) they vary hugely in their expressive language skills and (b) their pragmatic/socially-based language is more impaired than their structural language. We investigate whether similar patterns of language development exist for Mandarin-exposed children with ASD.…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Mandarin Chinese, Toddlers
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Wiklund, Mari; Laakso, Minna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
This paper analyses disfluencies and ungrammatical expressions in the speech of 11-13-year-old Finnish-speaking boys with ASD (N = 5) and with neurotypical development (N = 6). The ASD data were from authentic group therapy sessions and neurotypical data from teacher-led group discussions. The proportion of disfluencies and ungrammatical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Impairments, Grammar, Error Patterns
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Zhou, Peng; Crain, Stephen; Gao, Liqun; Tang, Ye; Jia, Meixiang – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
The present study investigated the production of grammatical morphemes by Mandarin-speaking children with high functioning autism. Previous research found that a subgroup of English-speaking children with autism exhibit deficits in the use of grammatical morphemes that mark tense. In order to see whether this impairment in grammatical morphology…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Grammar
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Tek, Saime; Mesite, Laura; Fein, Deborah; Naigles, Letitia – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Although children with Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show significant variation in language skills, research on what type(s) of language profiles they demonstrate has been limited. Using growth-curve analyses, we investigated how different groups of young children with ASD show increases in the size of their lexicon, morpho-syntactic production…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
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Ambridge, Ben; Bannard, Colin; Jackson, Georgina H. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) aged 11-13 (N = 16) and an IQ-matched typically developing (TD) group aged 7-12 (N = 16) completed a graded grammaticality judgment task, as well as a standardized test of cognitive function. In a departure from previous studies, the judgment task involved verb argument structure overgeneralization…
Descriptors: Grammar, Task Analysis, Decision Making, Autism
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Suh, Joyce; Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Naigles, Letitia; Barton, Marianne; Kelley, Elizabeth; Fein, Deborah – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) have traditionally been considered a lifelong condition; however, a subset of people makes such significant improvements that they no longer meet diagnostic criteria for an ASD. The current study examines whether these "optimal outcome" (OO) children and adolescents continue to have subtle pragmatic…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Weismer, Susan Ellis; Gernsbacher, Morton Ann; Stronach, Sheri; Karasinski, Courtney; Eernisse, Elizabeth R.; Venker, Courtney E.; Sindberg, Heidi – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
This study compared language development in 30-month-old toddlers on the autism spectrum and 25-month-old late talking toddlers without autism. Groups were matched on overall productive vocabulary (and nonverbal cognition was controlled) in order to compare language acquisition patterns related to vocabulary composition and early…
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Semantics, Autism, Grammar
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Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Bennetto, Loisa; Dadlani, Mamta B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Language acquisition research in autism has traditionally focused on high-level pragmatic deficits. Few studies have examined grammatical abilities in autism, with mixed findings. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by providing a detailed investigation of syntactic and higher-level discourse abilities in verbal children with…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Autism
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Kelley, Elizabeth; Paul, Jennifer J.; Fein, Deborah; Naigles, Letitia R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
This study examined whether language deficits persist even in children with optimal outcomes. We examined a group of children with prior diagnoses on the autism spectrum who had IQs in the normal range, were in age-appropriate mainstream classes, and had improved to such an extent that they were considered to be functioning at the level of their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Tests, Autism, Clinical Diagnosis
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