Sentence processing in young children with ASD.

2016 ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith L. Bavin ◽  
Emma K. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Children With Asd

scholarly journals Young Children with ASD Use Lexical and Referential Information During On-line Sentence Processing

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith L. Bavin ◽  
Evan Kidd ◽  
Luke A. Prendergast ◽  
Emma K. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
On Line

Disfluency Characteristics Observed in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Preliminary Report

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura W. Plexico ◽  
Julie E. Cleary ◽  
Ashlynn McAlpine ◽  
Allison M. Plumb
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Young Children With Autism ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Developmental Stuttering

This descriptive study evaluates the speech disfluencies of 8 verbal children between 3 and 5 years of age with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Speech samples were collected for each child during standardized interactions. Percentage and types of disfluencies observed during speech samples are discussed. Although they did not have a clinical diagnosis of stuttering, all of the young children with ASD in this study produced disfluencies. In addition to stuttering-like disfluencies and other typical disfluencies, the children with ASD also produced atypical disfluencies, which usually are not observed in children with typically developing speech or developmental stuttering. (Yairi & Ambrose, 2005).

scholarly journals Parent-reported feeding and swallowing difficulties of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (aged 3 to 5 years) compared to typically developing peers: a South African study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 524-532
Author(s):  
Mari Viviers ◽  
Marguerite Jongh ◽  
Lindsay Dickonson ◽  
Roxanne Malan ◽  
Tamaryn Pike
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Young Children ◽  
South African ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Swallowing Difficulties ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

Background: Research on aspects of neurodevelopment such as feeding and swallowing difficulties in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is limited in low and middle income countries such as South Africa. Method: A descriptive comparative group design was used to investigate feeding and swallowing difficulties of young children with ASD in comparison to typically developing peers. The Brief Autism Mealtime Behavioural Inventory (BAMBI) was used. Results: Findings indicated a significant difference in the severity of feeding and swallowing difficulties between the two groups. Difficulties such as food selectivity, sensory processing difficulties, oral-motor difficulties and symptoms of dysphagia were iden- tified. The findings added to the existing global literature on feeding and swallowing difficulties in young children with ASD but provide a unique first perspective on these difficulties in South African children with ASD. Conclusion: Findings also highlighted the use of the BAMBI as an adjunct clinical tool to encourage comprehensive parental report during feeding assessment in this population. Cultural adaptation of the BAMBI for future use in African countries should be considered. A better local understanding of the parental perspective on the multidimensional nature of the feeding and swallowing difficulties displayed by young children with ASD was obtained. Keywords: Parent-reported feeding; swallowing difficulties; Autism Spectrum Disorders; South Africa. 

Time to make a change. Early Start Denver Model for Young Children with ASD

Enfance ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol N�1 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Venus Wong ◽  
Elizabeth A. Fuller ◽  
Sally J. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Early Start ◽  
Early Start Denver Model ◽  
Children With Asd

Specific Challenges in Peer Relations for Young Children with ASD

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Nirit Bauminger-Zviely ◽  
Dganit Eytan ◽  
Sagit Hoshmand ◽  
Ofira Rajwan Ben–Shlomo
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Peer Relations ◽  
Children With Asd

scholarly journals Enhancing interactions during daily routines: A randomized controlled trial of a web-based tutorial for parents of young children with ASD

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa V. Ibañez ◽  
Kenneth Kobak ◽  
Amy Swanson ◽  
Lisa Wallace ◽  
Zachary Warren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Children With Asd

scholarly journals Syntactic and Semantic Specialization and Integration in 5- to 6-Year-Old Children during Auditory Sentence Processing

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Wang ◽  
Mabel L. Rice ◽  
James R. Booth
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Semantic Processing ◽  
Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽  
Superior Temporal Gyrus ◽  
Adult Brain ◽  
Middle Temporal Gyrus ◽  
Semantic Task

Previous studies have found specialized syntactic and semantic processes in the adult brain during language comprehension. Young children have sophisticated semantic and syntactic aspects of language, yet many previous fMRI studies failed to detect this specialization, possibly due to experimental design and analytical methods. In this current study, 5- to 6-year-old children completed a syntactic task and a semantic task to dissociate these two processes. Multivoxel pattern analysis was used to examine the correlation of patterns within a task (between runs) or across tasks. We found that the left middle temporal gyrus showed more similar patterns within the semantic task compared with across tasks, whereas there was no difference in the correlation within the syntactic task compared with across tasks, suggesting its specialization in semantic processing. Moreover, the left superior temporal gyrus showed more similar patterns within both the semantic task and the syntactic task as compared with across tasks, suggesting its role in integration of semantic and syntactic information. In contrast to the temporal lobe, we did not find specialization or integration effects in either the opercular or triangular part of the inferior frontal gyrus. Overall, our study showed that 5- to 6-year-old children have already developed specialization and integration in the temporal lobe, but not in the frontal lobe, consistent with developmental neurocognitive models of language comprehension in typically developing young children.

Automated Measures to Understand Communication Opportunities for Young Children With Autism in the Community: A Pilot Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren M. Little ◽  
Joanne P. Rojas ◽  
Anna Bard ◽  
Ying Luo ◽  
Dwight Irvin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Similar Amount ◽  
Social Communication Skills ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Young Children With Autism

Community participation is vital to children’s development and provides opportunities to practice social communication skills. Although previous studies suggest that young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) experience decreased community participation, there is little empirical evidence on the precise patterns of participation that may influence social communication opportunities. Therefore, this pilot study investigated the communication among families of children with ASD ( n = 5) versus typical development (TD; n = 5) across various community locations. We used automated, objective measures: the Language ENvironmental Analysis (LENA) system™ to measure the amount of communication and integrated this with a Global Positioning System (GPS; that is, Qstarz™) to measure community location. Results showed that families of children with ASD and TD spent a similar amount of time in community locations; however, there were differences in the amount of adult talk directed toward children with ASD versus TD across community locations. Findings suggest that automated measures may be successfully integrated to quantify social communication during community participation.

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