ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017
Structural and Pragmatic Language in Children with ASD: Longitudinal Impact on Anxiety and Externalizing Behaviors.
Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pragmatic language disorders as predictors of psychopathological trajectories in childhood and adolescence: a systematic review.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Anxiety and intellectual functioning in autistic children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2021Pooled it
- Understanding the associations between neurodevelopmental features and internalising and externalising behaviours: A transdiagnostic approach.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Associations between emotion and behavior codes and ADOS-2 scores in a sample of children referred for autism evaluation.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Heterogeneity in the Resilience Intervention Receptiveness in Chinese Parents of Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Schizotypal Traits in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Impact on Social, Emotional and Behavioral Functioning.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Pre-trained artificial intelligence language model represents pragmatic language variability central to autism and genetically related phenotypes.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Reduced Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Infants with theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Social Communication Delay in an Unbiased Sample of Preschoolers With theJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Pragmatic language and associations with externalizing behaviors in autistic individuals and those who have lost the autism diagnosis.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2023Article
- Review
- A Parental-Report Questionnaire for Language Abilities and Pragmatics in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- The Influence of ASD Severity on Parental Overload: The Moderating Role of Parental Well-Being and the ASD Pragmatic Level.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Predictors of Suicidal Thoughts in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Anxiety or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Unique Contribution of Externalizing Behaviors.Child psychiatry and human development · 2022Article
- Often Undiagnosed but Treatable: Case Vignettes and Clinical Considerations for Assessing Anxiety Disorders in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability.Evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health · 2022Article
- Profiles and correlates of language and social communication differences among young autistic children.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Language and Aggressive Behaviors in Male and Female Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Neural-level associations of non-verbal pragmatic comprehension in young Finnish autistic adults.International journal of circumpolar health · 2021Article
- Symptoms of Autism, Comorbid Mental Health Conditions and Challenging Behaviors among Toddlers with Down Syndrome at Low Risk for ASD-Characterization Using the BISCUIT-Parts 1-3.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Evaluating atypical language in autism using automated language measures.Scientific reports · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at heightened risk for developing comorbid psychological disorders, including anxiety disorders, which may be further exacerbated by the presence of externalizing behaviors. Here, we examined how structural language and pragmatic language predicted anxiety and externalizing behaviors. Participants were 159 young children (4-7 years old) with ASD and their mothers. Utilizing structural equation modeling we examined associations among structural language, pragmatic language, anxiety symptoms, and externalizing behaviors. Pragmatic language, was inversely related to child anxiety and co-occurring externalizing behaviors. Structural language skills positively predicted child anxiety. These findings suggest that children with ASD may be at heightened risk for anxiety and externalizing disorders due to their pragmatic language deficits.
Indexed as
Identifiers
28776120What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.