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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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01-08-2007 | Brief Communication

Brief Report: A Scale for Rating Conversational Impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Auteurs: Jessica de Villiers, Jonathan Fine, Gary Ginsberg, Liezanne Vaccarella, Peter Szatmari

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 7/2007

Abstract

There are few well-standardized measures of conversational breakdown in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The study’s objective was to develop a scale for measuring pragmatic impairments in conversations of individuals with ASD. We analyzed 46 semi-structured conversations of children and adolescents with high-functioning ASD using a functional linguistic paradigm. Five constructs were developed that assessed difficulties related to the pragmatics of conversation: atypical intonation; semantic drift; terseness; pedantic speech; perseveration. The scale shows good inter-rater reliability and variation in the scales is not simply a reflection of IQ or language competence. This tool represents a way of characterizing language use in ASD and is an initial step towards developing a tool to evaluate change in degree of social impairments in conversation.

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Titel: Brief Report: A Scale for Rating Conversational Impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Auteurs: Jessica de Villiers
Jonathan Fine
Gary Ginsberg
Liezanne Vaccarella
Peter Szatmari
Publicatiedatum: 01-08-2007
Uitgeverij: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 7/2007
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0264-1

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