ERIC Number: EJ1426139
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-May
Pages: 5
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3257
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Brief Report: Autistic Students Read between Lines
Inmaculada Fajardo; Holly Joseph
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v54 n5 p2055-2059 2024
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to struggle with reading comprehension, often resulting in difficulties with inference generation. While most of the previous research has focused on the product of comprehension, we report a preliminary validation of an experimental reading task in English to measure, by means of eye-movements, the time course of generating consistent and inconsistent inferences during reading. The task was tested with a group of 12 students with ASD (age range: 10-15) who showed accuracy differences between inference and control conditions. Participants spent longer reading in the inconsistent than control condition regarding go past times and second pass times and made more regressions into the target and post-target regions, but these differences were not significant.
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Inferences, Eye Movements, Students with Disabilities, Time, Accuracy
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Language: English
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