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Direct linkMartelle, Stefanie N.; Namazi, Mahchid – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this review is to illuminate the connection between inferential skills and spoken language idiom comprehension (SLIC) with a focus on autism. Idioms are frequently occurring figurative expressions, such as feeling blue, on cloud nine, and all tied up, that have literal and nonliteral meanings. Method: In this review article, an…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Correlation, Speech Communication, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Naigles, Letitia R. – First Language, 2020
This commentary critiques Ambridge's radical exemplar model of language acquisition using research from the Longitudinal Study of Early Language, which has tracked the language development of 30+ children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) since 2002. This research has demonstrated that the children's capacity for abstraction at the grammatical…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Grammar, Models
Melogno, Sergio; Pinto, Maria Antonietta; Levi, Gabriel – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2015
This study analyses the case of a gifted child (9;6 year) with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who had a particularly high verbal IQ (146) and a specific cognitive, linguistic, and metalinguistic profile. A description of some salient behavioral characteristics of the child is provided. A metalinguistic ability test assessing metagrammatical,…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Gifted, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Mashal, Nira; Kasirer, Anat – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This research extends previous studies regarding the metaphoric competence of autistic and learning disabled children on different measures of visual and verbal non-literal language comprehension, as well as cognitive abilities that include semantic knowledge, executive functions, similarities, and reading fluency. Thirty seven children with…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Autism, Learning Disabilities, Children
Gold, Rinat; Faust, Miriam; Goldstein, Abraham – Brain and Language, 2010
Previous research indicates severe disabilities in processing figurative language in people diagnosed on the autism spectrum disorders. However, this aspect of language comprehension in Asperger syndrome (AS) specifically has rarely been the subject of formal study. The present study aimed to examine the possibility that in addition to their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Asperger Syndrome
Norbury, Courtenay Frazier – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005
Happe (1993) proposed that theory of mind (ToM) understanding was necessary for comprehension of metaphorical expressions. The current study investigated the role of both ToM and language ability in metaphor understanding. Ninety-four children aged 8-15 years with communication impairments were grouped according to language ability and autistic…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Semantics, Language Impairments, Figurative Language
