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Brief Report: Early Lexical Comprehension in Young Children with ASD: Comparing Eye-Gaze Methodology and Parent Report

Auteurs: Courtney E. Venker, Eileen Haebig, Jan Edwards, Jenny R. Saffran, Susan Ellis Weismer

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 6/2016

Abstract

Lexical comprehension is commonly measured by parent report, but it may be difficult for parents of children with ASD to accurately judge their child’s comprehension. We compared parent report to an eye-gaze measure of lexical comprehension in which participants observed pairs of images on a screen, along with accompanying speech that named one of the two images. Twenty-two toddlers with ASD participated. Trials were included if the target word was reported as unknown. Children spent significantly more time looking at the target after it was named than before (d = 0.66). These results provide evidence that eye-gaze measures can reveal emerging lexical knowledge in young children with ASD that may otherwise be overlooked.

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Although the primary purpose of this study was to investigate comprehension at the group level, we also calculated correlations between the total number of words each child was reported to understand, and the child’s mean proportion of looks to target during the test window in each condition. Correlations for the full group (n = 22) were non-significant for the Unrelated condition (r = −.02, p = .93) and the Related condition (r = .23, p = .30). Based on a reviewer suggestion, we also calculated these correlations for the subgroup of children whose performance was within or above the 95 % confidence interval of the group mean in each condition. The correlations (n = 15) remained non-significant for the Unrelated condition (r = −.12, p = .68) and for the Related condition (r = .31, p = .26).

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Titel: Brief Report: Early Lexical Comprehension in Young Children with ASD: Comparing Eye-Gaze Methodology and Parent Report
Auteurs: Courtney E. Venker
Eileen Haebig
Jan Edwards
Jenny R. Saffran
Susan Ellis Weismer
Publicatiedatum: 16-02-2016
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 6/2016
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2747-z

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