Brief Report: Are Children with Autism Proficient Word Learners?

Autor/inn/en	Franken, Tessa E.; Lewis, Charlie; Malone, Stephanie A.
Titel	Brief Report: Are Children with Autism Proficient Word Learners?
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40 (2010) 2, S.255-259 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-009-0847-8
Schlagwörter	Learning Problems; Nouns; Autism; Developmental Psychology; Language Acquisition; Vocabulary Development; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Comprehension; Learning Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernproblem; Autismus; Entwicklungspsychologie; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Wortschatzarbeit; Verstehen; Verständnis; Learning process; Lernprozess
Abstract	Many approaches to word learning argue for the importance of joint attention and other social-pragmatic abilities. This study explored word learning in children with autism (CWA), by examining it in ostensive and non-ostensive contexts, tested through both comprehension and elicited production. Novel nouns were taught to 17 CWA and 13 children with moderate learning difficulties (MLD) using an adapted version of Tomasello and Barton's (Developmental Psychology, 30: 639-650, "1994") search paradigm. In elicited production for words learnt within an ostensive context, CWA performed at a significantly "higher" level than MLD children. This is contrary to prior findings and suggests that word learning abilities in CWA have been underestimated. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10