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Brief Report: Vocabulary and Grammatical Skills of Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders at School Age

Auteurs: Ana Maria Gonzalez-Barrero, Aparna Nadig

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 9/2019

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Abstract

We examined the lexical and grammatical skills of monolingual and bilingual school-age children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Thirteen monolingual and thirteen bilingual children with ASD without intellectual disability, were compared on standardized measures of vocabulary and morphology. Findings revealed that bilingual children performed in the average monolingual range on a standardized receptive vocabulary test and slightly below the average range on a standardized morphological task in their dominant language. Prior work indicates that bilingual exposure is not detrimental for early language development in children with autism. The current findings suggest that at school age, bilinguals with ASD show similar language development patterns as those described in the literature on typically-developing bilinguals.
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The term dominant language is also used for monolingual children given that some of these children had minimal exposure to a second language as described in Table 4. Monolingual children can be considered as functional monolinguals, who can only function in one language.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Brief Report: Vocabulary and Grammatical Skills of Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders at School Age
Auteurs
Ana Maria Gonzalez-Barrero
Aparna Nadig
Publicatiedatum
23-05-2019
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 9/2019
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04073-2