Language Abilities in Children with Autism and Language Impairment: Using Narrative as a Additional Source of Clinical Information

Autor/inn/en	Manolitsi, Maria; Botting, Nicola
Titel	Language Abilities in Children with Autism and Language Impairment: Using Narrative as a Additional Source of Clinical Information
Quelle	In: Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 27 (2011) 1, S.39-55 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0265-6590
DOI	10.1177/0265659010369991
Schlagwörter	Autism; Language Impairments; Testing; Language Tests; Communication Disorders; Foreign Countries; Comparative Analysis; Story Telling; Task Analysis; Personal Narratives; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Language test; Sprachtest; Kommunikationsstörung; Ausland; Aufgabenanalyse; Erlebniserzählung; Griechenland
Abstract	Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Specific Language Impairment (SLI) are disorders of communication that are sometimes thought to show similar structural language difficulties. Recent research has even suggested that they might be aetiologically related. However, it may be that standardized language tasks are not sensitive enough to detect similarities and differences accurately. This study involved 26 Greek children with either ASD or SLI and compared them on standardized measures of structural and pragmatic language as well as using a structured narrative task. Children with ASD were more impaired on receptive but not expressive scores from standardized language tests. In contrast, narrative measures showed significantly poorer ASD performance in expressive skills involving wider story-telling skill and in some sentence-level skills, in particular referencing, compared to peers with SLI. ASD and SLI groups also showed different relationships between structural language and other measures. The data suggests that narrative is a useful tool for revealing qualitative differences in language between overlapping communication disorders both at the clinical and theoretical level, since it provides information that is lost in more formalized testing. This may be particularly true where norms are not available or testing is difficult. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10