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Bruyneel, Eva; Demurie, Ellen; Boterberg, Sofie; Warreyn, Petra; Roeyers, Herbert – Journal of Child Language, 2020
The validity of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) System was evaluated for Dutch. 216 5-min samples (six samples per age per child) were selected from daylong recordings at 5, 10 and 14 months of age of native Dutch-speaking younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (N=6) and of typically developing children (N=6). Two…
Descriptors: Validity, Indo European Languages, Infants, Longitudinal Studies
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Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Bennetto, Loisa – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Language in autism has been the subject of intense interest, because communication deficits are central to the disorder, and because autism serves as an arena for testing theories of language acquisition. High-functioning older children with autism are often considered to have intact grammatical abilities, despite pragmatic impairments. Given the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age Differences, Autism, Language Skills