Relations Between Bilingualism and Autistic-Like Traits in a General Population Sample of Primary School Children

Kašćelan, Draško; Katsos, Napoleon; Gibson, Jenny

doi:10.1007/s10803-019-03994-2

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“…Kaelan et al found some evidence that bilingualism can improve impaired communication and cognitive skills in people with autism. However, diagnosing autism among bilinguals may be influenced by cultural biases, which may affect investigations of bilingualism and autism [ 1 ]. Crompton et al found that effective messaging requires social communication skills.…”

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Influence of Family Sports Games on the Development of Early Communication Skills in Autistic Children

Zhou

et al. 2022

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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With the development of society, the number of autistic children in China is increasing, which not only makes the family’s happiness very low, but also seriously affects the development of teenagers and society. Among the symptoms of autistic children, early childhood communication skills have received extensive attention. In traditional rehabilitation training, with a lack of parents’ participation, most of the training cannot arouse the interest of autistic children, so the treatment effect is not obvious. Based on this, this paper proposes the application of family sports games to improve the early communication ability of autistic children. This article aims to investigate the role of family sports games in promoting the development of early communication skills in autistic children. This paper uses the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to score the comprehensive ability of family sports games. The experimental results of this paper show that before the experiment, the comprehensive scores of children’s communication ability in the control group and the experimental group were 18.92 and 18, respectively, which were generally low, and there was no significant difference. This shows that the communication skills of the two groups of children before the experiment are relatively poor. After the test, the children’s comprehensive score of communication ability in the experimental group increased by 35.8 points, and the difference was significant, indicating that family sports games have a great impact on the development of children’s communication ability.

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Influence of Family Sports Games on the Development of Early Communication Skills in Autistic Children

Zhou

et al. 2022

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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“…Our finding that two measures of social adversity correlate with higher Q-CHAT score is in keeping with existing knowledge about neurodevelopment: univariable association between maternal first language and Q-CHAT score is also in keeping with a body of previous literature which demonstrates a higher rate of autism diagnoses in children from immigrant backgrounds 70 . It is likely that parent first language not being English in our sample represents an increased risk of experiencing other adversities 71 , rather than inferring that being raised in a bilingual environment has an effect on autism trait emergence, which is not thought to be the case 72 .…”

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Clinical, socio-demographic, and parental correlates of early autism traits in a community cohort of toddlers

Gale-Grant,

Chew,

Falconer

et al. 2024

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Identifying factors linked to autism traits in the general population may improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying divergent neurodevelopment. In this study we assess whether factors increasing the likelihood of childhood autism are related to early autistic trait emergence, or if other exposures are more important. We used data from 536 toddlers from London (UK), collected at birth (gestational age at birth, sex, maternal body mass index, age, parental education, parental language, parental history of neurodevelopmental conditions) and at 18 months (parents cohabiting, measures of socio-economic deprivation, measures of maternal parenting style, and a measure of maternal depression). Autism traits were assessed using the Quantitative Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT) at 18 months. A multivariable model explained 20% of Q-CHAT variance, with four individually significant variables (two measures of parenting style and two measures of socio-economic deprivation). In order to address variable collinearity we used principal component analysis, finding that a component which was positively correlated with Q-CHAT was also correlated to measures of parenting style and socio-economic deprivation. Our results show that parenting style and socio-economic deprivation correlate with the emergence of autism traits at age 18 months as measured with the Q-CHAT in a community sample.

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“…Similarly, female children often go undiagnosed and fail to fulfil standard autism disorder criteria since they perform better in social situations (Sutherland et al, 2017). Given that gender norms tend to be culturally oriented, diagnosing ASD in female children is a monumentally challenging task, especially in bilingual cultures (Kašćelan et al, 2019).…”

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The Language Development Process of Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Investigation into Gender Linguistic Differences

Al-khresheh¹,

AL-Qadri²

2021

WJEL

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This paper is a descriptive correlational study that investigated the gender differences in the language development process among a group of 215 male and female bilingual children with autism spectrum disorder. A valid and reliable questionnaire was adopted and deployed to accomplish the study’s objective. The caregivers of these autistic children were requested to complete and submit the questionnaire. Data analysis was made possible with the help of different statistical software tools. The study concluded that gender did significantly impact the participants’ performance in four different linguistic domains: Listening, vocabulary, verbal grammar and sentence construction, and questions formulation. Females were found to have an upper edge over their male counterparts in these domains. Only one non-significant difference was observed in the listening comprehension domain, where both genders were found to experience the same level of difficulty. The limitations and recommendations of this study have been presented here as well.

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Relations Between Bilingualism and Autistic-Like Traits in a General Population Sample of Primary School Children

Cited by 9 publications

References 66 publications

Influence of Family Sports Games on the Development of Early Communication Skills in Autistic Children

Influence of Family Sports Games on the Development of Early Communication Skills in Autistic Children

Clinical, socio-demographic, and parental correlates of early autism traits in a community cohort of toddlers

The Language Development Process of Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Investigation into Gender Linguistic Differences

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