Individual differences in autistic children’s homograph reading: Evidence from Hebrew:

Autism & Developmental Language Impairments

JonBrock¹ 

关键词: Autism spectrum disorders;    expressive language;    reading;    semantics;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2396941517714945

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Background and aimsOn average, autistic individuals make more errors than control participants when reading aloud sentences containing heterophonic homographs—written words with multiple meanings and pronunciations. This finding is widely interpreted within the framework of “weak central coherence” as evidence for impaired sentence-level comprehension resulting in a failure to disambiguate the homograph meaning. However, consistent findings at the group level belie considerable individual variation. Our aim here was to determine whether that variation was reliable and whether it could be predicted.MethodsWe developed a Hebrew version of the homograph-reading test, containing many more items than is possible in English. The test was administered to 18 native-Hebrew speaking autistic children and adolescents, along with a battery of reading and language assessments.ResultsParticipants with autism showed wide individual variation in performance on the homograph-reading task. Using a mixed random effects logi...

【 授权许可】

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