Trial reportLanguage, speech, and hearing services in schools2018
Acquisition of Verb Meaning From Syntactic Distribution in Preschoolers With Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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- Structural language profiles in children with autism spectrum disorder and developmental language disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Non-social Language Exposure Facilitates Autistic Children's Language Learning.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- The Influence of Social Word Features on Early Word Learning in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Analyses of Early Verb Production in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Quality of remotely-collected gaze data in autistic and nonspectrum children.Language development research · 2025Article
- Do focused interests support word learning? A study with autistic and nonautistic children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Language development, reading and word learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): a review on eye tracking studies.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Review
- Semantic and Syntactic Properties of Words and the Receptive-Expressive Gap in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Parental tuning of language input to autistic and nonspectrum children.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Repetition Versus Variability in Verb Learning: Sometimes Less Is More.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2021Article
- Identifying Areas of Overlap and Distinction in Early Lexical Profiles of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Late Talkers, and Typical Talkers.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
- Characterizing the early vocabulary profiles of preverbal and minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2021Article
- Optimal Contexts for Verb Learning.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups · 2019Article
- Lexical Development in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): How ASD May Affect Intake From the Input.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2018Review
- Distributional Cues to Language Learning in Children With Intellectual Disabilities.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2018Review
- Word imageability is associated with expressive vocabulary in children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
- Teaching receptive vocabulary to two autistic children: A replicated, clinic-based, single case experimental design.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
- Visual perceptual salience and novel referent selection in children with and without autism spectrum disorder.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
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Abstract
Purpose: Our goal was to investigate whether preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can begin to learn new word meanings by attending to the linguistic contexts in which they occur, even in the absence of visual or social context. We focused on verbs because of their importance for subsequent language development. Method: Thirty-two children with ASD, ages 2;1-4;5 (years;months), participated in a verb-learning task. In a between-subjects design, they were randomly assigned to hear novel verbs in either transitive or intransitive syntactic frames while watching an unrelated silent animation or playing quietly with a toy. In an eye-tracking test, they viewed two video scenes, one depicting a causative event (e.g., boy spinning girl) and the other depicting synchronous events (e.g., boy and girl waving). They were prompted to find the referents of the novel verbs, and their eye gaze was measured. Results: Like typically developing children in prior work, children with ASD who had heard the verbs in transitive syntactic frames preferred to look to the causative scene as compared to children who had heard intransitive frames. Conclusions: This finding replicates and extends prior work on verb learning in children with ASD by demonstrating that they can attend to a novel verb's syntactic distribution absent relevant visual or social context, and they can use this information to assign the novel verb an appropriate meaning. We discuss points for future research, including examining individual differences that may impact success and contrasting social and nonsocial word-learning tasks directly.
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