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ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2024

Sentence Production and Sentence Repetition in Autistic Adolescents and Young Adults: Linguistic Sensitivity to Finiteness Marking.

Teresa Girolamo, Samantha Ghali, Caroline Larson

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Article in Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Teresa GirolamoSchool of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders, San Diego State University, CA.ORCID 0000-0003-1714-3545
Samantha GhaliChild Language Doctoral Program, The University of Kansas, Lawrence.ORCID 0000-0002-0640-0211
Caroline LarsonDepartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, University of Missouri, Columbia.ORCID 0000-0001-7940-2528

Funding

Optimal Outcomes in ASD: Adult Functioning, Predictors, and MechanismsR01MH112687 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI EIGSTI, INGE-MARIE, FEIN, DEBORAH A. · 2018 to 2022
$3.4M
Training in the Cognitive Neuroscience of CommunicationT32DC017703 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI Inge-Marie Eigsti, Emily B Myers · 2019 to 2026
$2.3M
NIDCD NIH HHS L70 DC021323NIDCD NIH HHS T32 DC017703NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH112687
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Abstract

purposeDespite the clinical utility of sentence production and sentence repetition to identify language impairment in autism, little is known about the extent to which these tasks are sensitive to potential language variation. One promising method is strategic scoring, which has good clinical utility for identifying language impairment in nonautistic school-age children across variants of English. This report applies strategic scoring to analyze sentence repetition and sentence production in autistic adolescents and adults.

methodThirty-one diverse autistic adolescents and adults with language impairment (ALI;

resultsStrategic and unmodified item-level scores were essentially constant on both subtests and significantly lower in the ALI than the ASD group. Only group predicted item-level scores. Group differences were limited to: percent grammatical utterances on Formulated Sentences and percent production of overt structures combined on Sentence Repetition (ALI < ASD). DISCUSSION: Findings support the feasibility of strategic scoring for sentence production and sentence repetition to identify language impairment and indicate that potential language variation in finiteness marking did not confound outcomes in this sample. To better understand the clinical utility of strategic scoring, replication with a larger sample varying in age and comparisons with dialect-sensitive measures are needed. SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.25822336.

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Autistic DisorderLanguage TestsLinguisticsAdolescentAdultChildFemaleHumansLanguage Development DisordersMaleYoung Adult

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PMCPMC11253802

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