Describing (Pre)linguistic Oral Productions in 3- to 5-Year-Old Autistic Children: A Cluster Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Maes, Pauline; Weyland, Marielle; Kissine, Mikhail
Titel	Describing (Pre)linguistic Oral Productions in 3- to 5-Year-Old Autistic Children: A Cluster Analysis
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 27 (2023) 4, S.967-982 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Maes, Pauline)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/13623613221122663
Schlagwörter	Autism Spectrum Disorders; Preschool Children; Oral Language; Interpersonal Communication; Expressive Language; Age Differences; Socioeconomic Status; Severity (of Disability); Intelligence Quotient; Vocabulary; Phonetics; Speech Communication; Language Acquisition; Language Skills; Verbal Ability; French; Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule; MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Leiter International Performance Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autism; Autismus; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Schweregrad; Intelligenzquotient; Wortschatz; Phonetik; Fonetik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Mündliche Leistung; Französisch
Abstract	In many autistic children, speech onset is delayed and expressive language emerges after 3 years of age. We qualitatively and quantitatively describe oral productions of autistic preschoolers, including many non- or minimally speaking, recorded during interactions with a caregiver and with an experimenter. Data clustering on manually coded oral production samples indicates five validated linguistic profiles of oral production in this diverse and inclusive sample (n = 59) of 3- to 5-year-old autistic children with highly variable expressive language abilities. These profiles are then compared on a series of demographic (age, socioeconomic status) and psychometric (autism severity, nonverbal and verbal IQ) measures, as well as on additional measures of language (expressive vocabulary, phonetic inventories). Two clusters are composed of speaking autistic children, while the three others comprise non- or minimally speaking children with qualitatively different patterns of vocal productions. The five-profile division suggests that traditional binary division of speaking vs nonspeaking children does not do justice to the complexity of early expressive language in autism. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01