ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2021
Identifying Childhood Expressive Language Features That Best Predict Adult Language and Communication Outcome in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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- Developmental Language Differences in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Possible Sex Difference.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Assessing receptive verb knowledge in late talkers and autistic children: advances and cautionary tales.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2023Article
- A Bayesian statistics tutorial for clinical research: Prior distributions and meaningful results for small clinical samples.Journal of clinical psychology · 2023Article
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- Lexical and Morphosyntactic Profiles of Autistic Youth With Minimal or Low Spoken Language Skills.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2023Article
- Caregiver Language Input Supports Sentence Diversity in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Article
- The Development of Mental State Verb Use Among Autistic Children.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
- Word imageability is associated with expressive vocabulary in children with autism spectrum disorder.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
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- Prelinguistic communication complexity predicts expressive language in initial minimally verbal autistic children.International journal of language & communication disordersArticle
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Purpose Several studies have reported that "useful speech" at 5 years of age predicts outcomes in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but this skill has been vaguely defined. This study investigates which specific aspects of expressive language in children with ASD best predict adult language and communication outcomes. Method Language samples from 29 children (ages 47-72 months) enrolled in a longitudinal project (e.g., Lord et al., 2006) were transcribed and coded for spoken language features. Hierarchical linear regression was used to compare the following childhood variables as predictors of adult language and communication outcomes: noun diversity, verb diversity, mean length of utterance, and proportion of utterances that were socially motivated. Results Childhood verb diversity was a value-added predictor of all four adult outcome measures (i.e., verbal IQ, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule Communication + Social Interaction Algorithm totals, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test scores, and Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales Communication Domain scores), while noun diversity and proportion of utterances that were socially motivated were not value-added predictors of any adult outcome measures. In a second set of regression analyses, mean length of utterance was substituted for verb diversity and was a value-added predictor of two out of four adult outcome measures (i.e., verbal IQ and Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales Communication Domain scores). The pattern of findings for the other predictors remained the same as in the previous analyses. Conclusion These results have implications for our understanding of early language in ASD and for clinical decision making in early childhood.
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