ArticleAutism & developmental language impairments
Motor speech impairment predicts expressive language in minimally verbal, but not low verbal, individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
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- Exploring the clinical features of minimally verbal autistic children.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Profiles of minimally verbal autistic children: Illuminating the neglected end of the spectrum.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Exploring Motor Speech Disorders in Low and Minimally Verbal Autistic Individuals: An Auditory-Perceptual Analysis.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2024Article
- Phonemic Feature Scoring as a Tool for Progress Monitoring During Language Interventions for Children With Autism and Minimal Verbal Skills.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2024Article
- Vowel distinctiveness as a concurrent predictor of expressive language function in autistic children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Receptive language and receptive-expressive discrepancy in minimally verbal autistic children and adolescents.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Speech Development Across Subgroups of Autistic Children: A Longitudinal Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Oromotor skills in autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
- Lexical and Morphosyntactic Profiles of Autistic Youth With Minimal or Low Spoken Language Skills.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2023Article
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aimsDevelopmental motor speech impairment has been suspected, but rarely systematically examined, in low- and minimally verbal individuals with autism spectrum disorder. We aimed to investigate the extent of motor speech impairment in this population and its relation to number of different words produced during a semi-structured language sample.
methodsVideos of 54 low-verbal and minimally verbal individuals (ages 4;4-18;10) performing portions of a speech praxis test were coded for signs of motor speech impairment (e.g., childhood apraxia of speech). Age, autism spectrum disorder severity, nonspeech oral-motor ability, speech production ability, nonverbal IQ, and receptive vocabulary were compared between groups.
resultsFour groups emerged: (1) speech within normal limits ( CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: If replicated, our findings have important implications for developing much-needed spoken language interventions in minimally verbal individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
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