Grammatical Aspect Is a Strength in the Language Comprehension of Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autor/inn/en	Tovar, Andrea T.; Fein, Deborah; Naigles, Letitia R.
Titel	Grammatical Aspect Is a Strength in the Language Comprehension of Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58 (2015) 2, S.301-310 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/2014_JSLHR-L-13-0257
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Eye Movements; Young Children; Video Technology; Visual Stimuli; Verbs; Morphemes; Grammar; Familiarity; Coding; Speech Communication; Comprehension; Correlation; Standardized Tests; Scores + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Augenbewegung; Frühe Kindheit; Morphem; Grammatik; Codierung; Programmierung; Verstehen; Verständnis; Korrelation; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test
Abstract	Purpose: The comprehension of tense/aspect morphology by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was assessed via Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL) to determine whether this population's difficulties with producing these morphemes extended to their comprehension. Method: Four-year-old participants were assessed twice, 4 months apart. They viewed a video that presented side-by-side ongoing and completed events paired with familiar verbs with past tense and progressive morphology. Their eye movements were recorded and coded offline; the IPL measures included percentage of looking time at, and latency of first look to, the matching scene. Spontaneous speech samples were also obtained and coded for number of words, past tense, and progressive inflections. Results: Relative to their baseline preferences, these 4-year-old children with ASD looked more quickly to and longer at the matching scene for both morphemes. Children who produced more words, including progressive and past morphemes, and those who performed better on standardized language assessments demonstrated better comprehension of "-ing". Conclusions: Overall, these children with ASD demonstrated consistent comprehension of grammatical aspect morphology; moreover, their degree of comprehension was found to correlate with spontaneous production and standardized test scores. (As Provided).
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