Word Learning in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Word Learning in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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DOI：
10.1037/a0016223
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发表时间：
2009-11-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
Lord, Catherine
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作者：
Luyster, Rhiannon;Lord, Catherine
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have been gaining attention, partly as an example of unusual developmental trajectories related to early neurobiological differences. The present investigation addressed the process of learning new words to explore mechanisms of language delay and impairment. The sample included 21 typically developing toddlers matched on expressive vocabulary with 21 young children with ASD. Two tasks were administered to teach children a new word and were supplemented by cognitive and diagnostic measures. In most analyses, there were no group differences in performance. Children with ASD did not consistently make mapping errors, even in word learning situations that required the use of social information. These findings indicate that some children with ASD, in developmentally appropriate tasks. are able to use information from social interactions to guide word-object mappings. This result has important implications for understanding of how children with ASD learn language.
