ReviewNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2022
Language and Speech Characteristics in Autism.
Review in Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Structural language profiles in children with autism spectrum disorder and developmental language disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Burden of Co-occurring Conditions and Perinatal Predictors of Epilepsy in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study of 1015 Children From Northwestern Mexico.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Functional Brain Asymmetry Reveals Heterogeneous Subtypes in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- The Empathy Quotient and Systemising Quotient for Toddlers: Development and Validation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Working memory and language development have a bi-directional longitudinal relationship in autistic preschoolers.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2026Article
- Article
- Vocal and social impairments in songbirds embryonically exposed to an autism risk factor.iScience · 2026Article
- Changing the Child: The Impact of Novel Treatments on the Identity of Children With Monogenic Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Bioethics · 2026Article
- Comparison of the K-WPPSI-IV Profiles Between Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Retrospective Study.Psychiatry investigation · 2026Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Gilliam Autism Rating Scale-Third Edition (CV-GARS-3).Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Use of Automation Technologies and Data Mining in Speech Recognition for Autism.Brain and behavior · 2026Review
- The Conceptualization, Experience, and Recognition of Emotion in Autism: Differences in the Psychological Mechanisms Involved in Autistic and Non-Autistic Emotion Recognition.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Genomic Era: A Comprehensive Review of Etiology, Precision Diagnostics, Clinical Outcomes, and Emerging Gene-Editing Therapies.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2026Review
- Analyzing the genetic profile of autistic children and adolescents with minimal verbal abilities.Frontiers in genetics · 2026Article
- Auditory processing and communication in autism: exploring verbal abilities and vocal affective cues.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Article
- Vowel acoustic parameters in speech assessment and rehabilitation of minimally verbal and speech-motor-impaired autistic children: a narrative review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- The Effectiveness of Art Therapy on Children and Adolescents with ASD: A Systematic Review of RCTs.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Visual statistical learning and social attention in neurotypical, minimally speaking and speaking autistic preschoolers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Orthodontic Treatment Needs in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to provide information regarding diversity in speech and language profiles of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and try to classify these profiles according to the combination of the communication difficulties. Research findings confirm the existence of heterogeneity of communication challenges in ASD across the lifespan. A lot of children with ASD experience communication challenges and strengths across all language sub-systems including pragmatics, grammar, semantics, syntax, phonology, and morphology in both oral and written language, while some children with autism demonstrate exceptional language abilities incl. linguistic creativity. Communication issues vary on a continuum of severity so that some children may be verbal, whereas others remain non-verbal or minimally-verbal. The diversity of profiles in speech and language development stem from either the presence of comorbid factors, as a core symptom of autistic behavior without comorbidity or both, with the development of complex clinical symptoms. Difficulties with the semantic aspect of language affect the individual's skills in abstract thinking, multiple meanings of words, concept categorization, and so on. Finally, the coexistence of ASD with other communication difficulties such as a Language Disorder, Apraxia of Speech, Speech Sound Disorders or/and other neurodevelopmental disorders raises the need for examining more carefully the emergence of new clinical profiles and clinical markers useful in performing differential diagnosis and different intervention.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.