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Xiaoyan Li; Ran Sun; Yonghan Peng; Yumin Zhang – First Language, 2025
This study aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between maternal conversational participation and the unconventional language of autistic children, and whether the relative vocabulary diversity between mother and child would affect the relationship between them. Participants were 39 autistic Mandarin-speaking children, aged 3-6 years,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Participation, Language Usage, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Dockrell, Julie; Sturrock, Alexandra; Matthews, Danielle; Wilson, Charlotte – First Language, 2023
Individual differences in children's social communication have been shown to mediate the relationship between poor vocabulary or grammar and behavioural difficulties. Moreover, there is increasing evidence that social communication skills predict difficulties with peers over and above vocabulary and grammar scores. The essential social…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Interpersonal Communication, Evidence Based Practice, Cognitive Ability