scholarly journals Language and reading abilities of children with autism spectrum disorders and specific language impairment and their first-degree relatives

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen A. Lindgren ◽  
Susan E. Folstein ◽  
J. Bruce Tomblin ◽  
Helen Tager-Flusberg
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
First Degree Relatives ◽  
Reading Abilities ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

scholarly journals Spoken word recognition in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and specific language impairment

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOM LOUCAS ◽  
NICK RICHES ◽  
GILLIAN BAIRD ◽  
ANDREW PICKLES ◽  
EMILY SIMONOFF ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Adolescents With Autism ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

ABSTRACTSpoken word recognition, during gating, appears intact in specific language impairment (SLI). This study used gating to investigate the process in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders plus language impairment (ALI). Adolescents with ALI, SLI, and typical language development (TLD), matched on nonverbal IQ listened to gated words that varied in frequency (low/high) and number of phonological onset neighbors (low/high density). Adolescents with ALI required more speech input to initially identify low-frequency words with low competitor density than those with SLI and those with TLD, who did not differ. These differences may be due to less well specified word form representations in ALI.

The Perception of the Relationship Between Affective Prosody and the Emotional Content in Utterances in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Kjelgaard ◽  
Helen Tager-Flusberg
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Emotional Prosody ◽  
Implicit Processing ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) were compared to children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children and adults in their ability to perceive and judge the emotional information conveyed by happy, neutral, and sad prosody. Authors found that high-functioning verbal children with ASD have an implicit sensitivity to emotional prosody, but are unable to explicitly judge the emotion of the same prosody. Children with SLI showed they were better able to judge the emotional prosody, similar to TD children, although not as well as adults. The findings indicate that, unique to the children with ASD, there is a disconnect between the implicit processing of emotional prosody and the explicit labeling of the emotion in prosody. This is promising for interventions aimed at facilitating the abilities of ASD children in their everyday understanding of emotional prosody in conversation.

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