Oral language impairments in developmental disorders characterized by language strengths: A comparison of Asperger syndrome and nonverbal learning disabilities

Stothers, Margot E.; Cardy, Janis Oram

doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2011.07.013

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“…These outcomes may highlight the role of higher language capacities as a protective factor in explaining better processing of social information in these children with ASD or SLD. Prior studies suggested that children with ASD and SLD demonstrated difficulties in oral language pragmatic skills, such as conversational turn-taking, maintaining topics, politeness, prosody, and awareness of listeners’ responses (see Stothers & Cardy’s, 2012, review). Moreover, data from such studies also highlighted that weaknesses in structural language (e.g., morphology, syntax) may contribute to pragmatic impairments (Volden, Coolican, Garon, White, & Bryson, 2009) and also suggested possible overlap with semantic capacities as investigated here.…”

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“…Interestingly, prior comparative studies that examined semantic language capacities, especially with regard to figurative language, found that the ASD and SLD groups did not differ significantly from one another, but both performed lower than the TD group (e.g., Mashal & Kasirer, 2011; Qualls et al, 2004; Stothers & Cardy, 2012). Others studies (e.g., Qualls et al, 2004; Stothers & Cardy, 2012) supported a common semantic profile for both ASD and SLD, pinpointing a strong vocabulary breadth but with limited depth and organization as well as problems in higher order semantic organization (e.g., awareness of words’ multiple meanings and uses, knowing how to use language in context) that may be closely linked with children’s pragmatic deficit. Altogether, for both clinical groups, the literature has shown a close link between language deficits (mainly semantic) and communicative-pragmatic capacities.…”

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Social Information Processing Among Children With ASD, SLD, and Typical Development: The Mediational Role of Language Capacities

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The present study examined the role of language capacities in explaining differences in social information processing (SIP) among three school-age groups: high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD, IQ > 75), children with specific learning disorder (SLD), and children with typical development (TD). Participants were 96 boys in Grades 3 to 6, comprising 25 boys with ASD, 38 with SLD, and 33 with TD. SIP measures included two peer vignettes (group entry, ambiguous provocation) to highlight influences of social context. Both clinical groups (SLD, ASD) differed significantly from the nonclinical (TD) group in total language capacities and in five of six SIP measures. As hypothesized, language capacities also significantly mediated the two disorders’ associations with children’s deficits along SIP stages. Findings from this novel comparative study call for consideration of semantic-pragmatic language’s role when planning interventions that target social cognition in both clinical populations as well as further empirical exploration.

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Social Information Processing Among Children With ASD, SLD, and Typical Development: The Mediational Role of Language Capacities

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“…NLD is a learning disorder and its main symptoms are centered in alterations that are generally attributed to the right hemisphere: spatial orientation, visual-perception, spatial structuring, fine psychomotor activity and pragmatic aspects of language [22]. The…”

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Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (Nld) – Clinical Description about Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

Incháustegui

2019

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“…Despite being considered as having good general vocabulary and being advanced in their lexical knowledge (Stothers & Cardy, 2012), individuals with AS present major difficulties on a communicational level. One of the most visible is the incapability of modifying language in accordance with social circumstances.…”

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Social cognition and communication skills in Asperger syndrome young adults

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Aguilar³

2017

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ABSTRACT:The aim of this study is to compare patients with Asperger syndrome (AS) and control participants on social cognition tasks and communication skills. Twenty young adults were assessed in three social cognition domains; recognition of basic emotions, recognition of complex emotions and Theory of Mind (ToM). In addition participants completed a self-report questionnaire as a measure of social communication skills. The results indicate that adults with AS perform below neurotypical control participants in emotion processing, ToM and communication skills. There were no significant correlations between the variables of social cognition and communication skills in the group of AS. Taken together, results suggest that people with a diagnosis of AS present a deficit in ToM and emotional processing as well as in communication skills. However, it was not possible to identify a significant association between the variables of social cognition and communication skills.

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Oral language impairments in developmental disorders characterized by language strengths: A comparison of Asperger syndrome and nonverbal learning disabilities

Cited by 15 publications

References 118 publications

Social Information Processing Among Children With ASD, SLD, and Typical Development: The Mediational Role of Language Capacities

Social Information Processing Among Children With ASD, SLD, and Typical Development: The Mediational Role of Language Capacities

Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (Nld) – Clinical Description about Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

Social cognition and communication skills in Asperger syndrome young adults

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