SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
The Vocabulary of Infants with an Elevated Likelihood and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Infant Language Studies Using the CDI and MSEL.
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- Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) in etiologically diverse developmental conditions: A systematic review.Research in developmental disabilities · 2026Pooled it
- The use of technology-assisted intervention in vocabulary learning for children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Infant Attention to Eyes Versus Mouth Varies With Mouth Movement Speed, Family History of Autism and Language Development.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Expressive Vocabulary in Mandarin-Speaking Autistic, Developmentally Delayed, and Typically Developing Children: A Cross-sectional Study.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- A Concurrent Validity Study of the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) and the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory (CDI) in Infants with an Elevated Likelihood or Diagnosis of Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Receptive-Expressive Language Phenotypes in Infants and Toddlers With Autism Features.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Relations Between Preferential Looking to Synchronous Audiovisual Speech and Expressive Language in Infants With Autistic and Non-Autistic Siblings.Mind, brain and education : the official journal of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society · 2026Article
- Auditory processing and communication in autism: exploring verbal abilities and vocal affective cues.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Assessing Language Skills in Children Aged 4 to 6 Years with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Prospective Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Early selective attention to the articulating mouth as a potential female-specific marker of better language development in autism: a review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Increasing Vocabulary and Listening Comprehension During Adapted Shared Reading: An Intervention for Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Patterns of spontaneous neural activity associated with social communication abilities among infants and toddlers showing signs of autism.The European journal of neuroscience · 2024Article
- Developmental Profile in Children Aged 3-6 Years: Down Syndrome vs. Autism Spectrum Disorder.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Experience of early-life pain in premature infants is associated with atypical cerebellar development and later neurodevelopmental deficits.BMC medicine · 2023Article
- Neural Tracking in Infancy Predicts Language Development in Children With and Without Family History of Autism.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Insights on dental care management and prevention in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). What is new?Frontiers in oral health · 2022Review
- Is the Kent-Rosanoff Word Association Task Helpful in Characterizing Language Difficulties in 6- to 9-Year-Old Children with Autism?Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
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Abstract
Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are typically accompanied by atypical language development, which can be noticeable even before diagnosis. The siblings of children diagnosed with ASD are at elevated likelihood for ASD diagnosis and have been shown to have higher prevalence rates than the general population. In this paper, we systematically reviewed studies looking at the vocabulary size and development of infants with autism. One inclusion criterion was that infants were grouped either pre-diagnostically as elevated or typical likelihood or post-diagnostically as ASD or without ASD. This review focused on studies that tested infants up to 24 months of age and that assessed vocabulary either via the parent-completed MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory (CDI) or the clinician-administered Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL). Our systematic search yielded 76 studies. A meta-analysis was performed on these studies that compared the vocabulary scores of EL and TL infants pre-diagnostically and the scores of ASD and non-ASD infants post-diagnostically. Both pre- and post-diagnostically, it was found that the EL and ASD infants had smaller vocabularies than their TL and non-ASD peers, respectively. The effect sizes across studies were heterogenous, prompting additional moderator analyses of age and sub-group analyses of the language measure used (CDI or MSEL) as potential moderators of the effect size. Age was found to be a moderator both in the pre- and post-diagnostical groups, however, language measure was not a moderator in either diagnostic group. Interpretations and future research directions are discussed based on these findings.
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