Subject Pronoun Use by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

In the current study, storytelling and story retelling by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were analyzed to explore ambiguous third-person pronoun use in narratives. Twenty-three children diagnosed with ASD aged 6;1 to 14;3 and 17 typically-developing (TD) children aged 5;11 to 14;4 part...

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Published inClinical linguistics & phonetics Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 85 - 93
Main Author Novogrodsky, Rama
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Informa Healthcare 01.02.2013
Subjects
Adolescent
Adolescents
Ambiguity (Semantics)
Autism
Child
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - diagnosis
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive - physiopathology
Child, Preschool
Children
Clinical Diagnosis
Female
Form Classes (Languages)
Humans
Language Impairments
Language Tests
Language Usage
Male
Narration
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Pragmatics
Semantics
Story Telling
Task Analysis
Verbal Behavior - physiology
Vocabulary
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Summary:In the current study, storytelling and story retelling by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were analyzed to explore ambiguous third-person pronoun use in narratives. Twenty-three children diagnosed with ASD aged 6;1 to 14;3 and 17 typically-developing (TD) children aged 5;11 to 14;4 participated in the study. In the retelling task, no significant difference between the groups was found, suggesting that in less challenging tasks, children with ASD produce third-person subject pronouns appropriately. In the storytelling task, children with ASD produced more ambiguous third-person subject pronouns than did the TD children. The findings suggest a model in which children with ASD show deficits in the pragmatic domain of producing narratives. (Contains 4 tables and 5 notes.)
ISSN:0269-9206
1464-5076
DOI:10.3109/02699206.2012.742567