The Social Feedback Hypothesis and Communicative Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Warlaumont, Anne S.; Richards, Jeffrey A.; Gilkerson, Jill; Messinger, Daniel S.; Oller, D. Kimbrough

doi:10.1177/0956797616668558

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“…Participants in the current study emphasised the relevance of the 'quality' of vocalisations, with Janet and Katie focusing particularly on repetitive patterns of speech that children were unlikely to have heard or had modelled for them by child or adult communication partners (e.g., 'ticka-ticka-ticka'). The participant insights from this study suggest that further research combining bodies of knowledge, possibly in this case to include both early auditory processing and verbal production, may be fruitful and could be joined with technological advances in automated language analysis (Rankine et al, 2017;Warlaumont, Richards, Gilkerson, Messinger, & Oller, 2016;Warren et al, 2010) to develop clinically relevant and feasible methods for assessment and monitoring of outcomes.…”

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Clinician Proposed Predictors of Spoken Language Outcomes for Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Trembath

Sutherland

Caithness

et al. 2020

J Autism Dev Disord

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Our aim was to explore insights from clinical practice that may inform efforts to understand and account for factors that predict spoken language outcomes for children with ASD who use minimal verbal language. We used a qualitative design involving three focus groups with 14 speech pathologists to explore their views and experiences. Using the Framework Method of analysis, we identified 9 themes accounting for 183 different participant references to potential factors. Participants highlighted the relevance of clusters of fine-grained social, communication, and learning behaviours, including novel insights into prelinguistic vocal behaviours. The participants suggested the potential value of dynamic assessment in predicting spoken language outcomes. The findings can inform efforts to developing clinically relevant methods for predicting children's communication outcomes.

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confidence: 94%

Clinician Proposed Predictors of Spoken Language Outcomes for Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Trembath

Sutherland

Caithness

et al. 2020

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…The authors of [52] investigated day-long naturalistic recordings between children and their parents and found longer silences before responses to question in the ASD compared to a CTR group (see also [53]).…”

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Turn-timing in conversations between autistic adults: typical short-gap transitions are preferred, but not achieved instantly

Wehrle¹,

Cangemi²,

janz³

et al. 2023

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The organisation of who speaks when in conversation is perhaps the most fundamental aspect of human communication. Research on a wide variety of groups of speakers has revealed a seemingly universal preference for between-speaker transitions consisting of very short silent gaps. Previous research on conversational turn-taking in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) consists of only a handful of studies, most of which are limited in scope and based on the non-spontaneous speech of children and adolescents. No previous studies have investigated dialogues between autistic adults. We analysed the conversational turn-taking behaviour of 28 adult native German speakers in two groups of dyads, in which both interlocutors either did or did not have a diagnosis of ASD. We found no clear difference in turn-timing between the ASD and the control group overall, with both groups showing the same preference for very short silent-gap transitions that has been described for many other groups of speakers in the past. We did, however, find a clear difference between groups specifically in the earliest stages of dialogue, where ASD dyads produced considerably longer silent gaps than controls. We discuss our findings in the context of the previous literature, the implications of diverging behaviour specifically in the early stages of conversation, and the general importance of studying the neglected aspect of interactions between autistic adults.

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Putting the child in the driver’s seat: Insights into language development from children’s interactions in preschool classrooms

Perry,

Meibohm,

Drye

et al. 2024

Natural Behavior

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The Social Feedback Hypothesis and Communicative Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Abstract: We focus here on two issues raised by Akhtar, Jaswal, Dinishak, and Stephan (2016): (a) the roles of motor skill and motivation to communicate within the feedback-loop model and (b) the clinical implications of the model. We then briefly discuss two additional issues.

Cited by 35 publications

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Clinician Proposed Predictors of Spoken Language Outcomes for Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Clinician Proposed Predictors of Spoken Language Outcomes for Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Turn-timing in conversations between autistic adults: typical short-gap transitions are preferred, but not achieved instantly

Putting the child in the driver’s seat: Insights into language development from children’s interactions in preschool classrooms

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