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Sterling, Audra – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Some boys with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and boys with fragile X syndrome and a codiagnosis of ASD (FXS+ASD) have impairments in expressive grammatical abilities. The current study compared grammatical performance in these 2 groups of school-age boys. Method: Thirty-seven boys similar on mean length of utterance participated in the…
Descriptors: Males, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Genetic Disorders
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Perovic, Alexandra; Modyanova, Nadya; Wexler, Ken – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Although pragmatic deficits are well documented in autism, little is known about the extent to which grammatical knowledge in this disorder is deficient, or merely delayed when compared to that of typically developing children functioning at similar linguistic or cognitive levels. This study examines the knowledge of constraints on the…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Form Classes (Languages), Autism