ArticleLanguage learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development2022
Consistency and inconsistency in caregiver reporting of vocabulary.
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- Cross-Cultural Variation in the Noun Bias in Early Vocabulary Development: A Systematic Review.Cognitive science · 2026Pooled it
- Interrogating Early Word Knowledge: Factors That Influence the Alignment Between Caregiver-Report and Experimental Measures.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Analyses of Early Verb Production in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Language impairment in autistic adolescents and young adults: Variability by definition.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Parent Certainty and Consistency When Completing Vocabulary Checklists in Young Autistic Children.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- 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
- The State of Natural Language Sampling in Autism Research: A Scoping Review.Autism & developmental language impairmentsReview
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Abstract
Vocabulary checklists completed by caregivers are a common way of measuring children's vocabulary knowledge. We provide evidence from checklist data from 31 children with and without autism spectrum disorder. When asked to report twice about whether or not their child produces a particular word, caregivers are largely consistent in their responses, but where they are inconsistent, these inconsistencies affect verbs more than nouns. This difference holds both for caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorder and caregivers of typically-developing children. We suggest that caregivers may be less sure of their child's knowledge about verbs than nouns. This data converges with prior evidence comparing language samples of words children produce in a recorded interaction with checklist data, and it has implications for how researchers use checklist data in cases where the reliability of estimates of verb knowledge is critical.
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