Sentence production and sentence repetition in autistic adolescents and young adults: Linguistic sensitivity to finiteness-marking
Teresa Girolamo,
Samantha Ghali,
Caroline Larson
Abstract:Purpose: Despite the clinical utility of sentence production and sentence repetition to identify language impairment in autism, little is known about the extent to which these tasks are sensitive to potential dialectal variation. One promising method is strategic scoring (Oetting et al., 2016), which has good clinical utility for identifying language impairment in nonautistic school-age children across dialects of English. This report applies strategic scoring to analyze sentence repetition and sentence produc… Show more
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