ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2022
Language Impairment in Autistic Adolescents and Young Adults.
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- Studies pertaining to language impairment in school-age autistic individuals underreport participant socio-demographics: A systematic review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023Pooled it
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- Language impairment in autistic adolescents and young adults: Variability by definition.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Services in Minoritized Autistic Adolescents and Adults Varying in Language Skills.Seminars in speech and language · 2024Article
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- Sentence Production and Sentence Repetition in Autistic Adolescents and Young Adults: Linguistic Sensitivity to Finiteness Marking.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Sentence production and sentence repetition in autistic adolescents and young adults: Linguistic sensitivity to finiteness-marking.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Implementation of Open Science Practices in Communication Sciences and Disorders Research With Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- A Community-Based Approach to Longitudinal Language Research With Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Autistic Young Adults: Lessons Learned and New Directions.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2023Article
- Facing phonological complexity as an autistic adult: An exploratory study.Autism & developmental language impairmentsArticle
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purposeLittle is known about the specific nature of language abilities of autistic adolescents and young adults with language impairment (LI), limiting our knowledge of developmental trajectories and ability to develop efficacious speech/language supports. An important first step is establishing proof of concept of identification of LI in this population, with considerations for feasibility of assessment. This research note describes such a study in a sample of autistic adolescents and young adults with LI.
methodThirteen autistic adolescents and young adults completed an assessment protocol of age-referenced language and nonverbal cognitive assessments. Assessment took place once per year for 3 years; the first two assessments were conducted in person, and the final was conducted online due to the pandemic. All assessments included measures of overall language and morphosyntax; the third added measures of expressive and receptive vocabulary, verbal working memory, and nonverbal intelligence (NVIQ). Analysis included descriptives and comparison of individual performance with epidemiological criteria for LI.
resultsAll participants qualified for LI, with overall receptive and expressive language scores persistently in the LI range. Other outcomes were variable. Some participants had nonword repetition and vocabulary abilities within age expectations, and some consistently showed adultlike morphosyntactic performance. NVIQ was variable, with no consistent associations with language outcomes. DISCUSSION: Our findings support the use of the current protocol, as implemented in person or online, to identify LI in autistic adolescents and young adults. This exploratory work is limited by a small sample and missing data. The findings contribute to our understanding of linguistic strengths and variability in the language skills of autistic young adults with LI.
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