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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 6/2014

01-06-2014 | Brief Report

Brief Report: Do Children with Autism Gather Information from Social Contexts to Aid Their Word Learning?

Auteurs: Wei Jing, Junming Fang

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 6/2014

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Abstract

Typically developing (TD) infants could capitalize on social eye gaze and social contexts to aid word learning. Although children with autism disorder (AD) are known to exhibit atypicality in word learning via social eye gaze, their ability to utilize social contexts for word learning is not well understood. We investigated whether verbal AD children exhibit word learning ability via social contextual cues by late childhood. We found that AD children, unlike TD controls, failed to infer the speaker’s referential intention through information gathered from the social context. This suggests that TD children can learn words in diverse social pragmatic contexts in as early as toddlerhood whereas AD children are still unable to do so by late childhood.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Brief Report: Do Children with Autism Gather Information from Social Contexts to Aid Their Word Learning?
Auteurs
Wei Jing
Junming Fang
Publicatiedatum
01-06-2014
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 6/2014
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-013-1994-5

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