Pragmatic and Conversational Features of Arabic-Speaking Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Examining Performance and Caregivers' Perceptions

Almehmadi, Wesam; Tenbrink, Thora; Sanoudaki, Eirini

doi:10.1044/2020_jslhr-19-00265

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“…Indeed, a recent survey of 15 Saudi adolescents with ASD and in the normal cognitive range, found them to be suffering from significant pragmatic speech and language deficits, as compared with normal matched controls, when evaluated using the Yale in vivo Pragmatic Protocol. 64 Why do ASD Arab children speak classical Arabic more often?…”

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Characteristic Neuro-Linguistic Styles in Young Arabic Speaking Children Diagnosed with ASD

Diamond

Badir

Almog

et al. 2022

Child Neurology Open

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Evaluations of all Arabic speaking children age 3–9.0 years with significant speech delays or impairments, referred to a community based, child development center in the public health care system during a 5-year period were reviewed. Use of an inordinate degree of words and expressions in Fossha version of classical Arabic, mainly used in the media, children's literature and formalized venues, as well as in English, was highly associated with ASD, especially among those who were both more intelligent (IQ> 70), as well as older (greater than 4 years), (Pearson 7.29, Fisher 2-tailed test, p = 0.015). The use of "out of context" speech embedded in ordinary Arabic vernacular was associated with a higher degree of speech stereotypy (p < 0.001) among children with ASD, and unrelated statistically to the number of hours of screen viewing time, jargoning or associative speech. Idiosyncratic speech choices reflect neuro-linguistic mechanisms in social communication- impaired youngsters.

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Characteristic Neuro-Linguistic Styles in Young Arabic Speaking Children Diagnosed with ASD

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Badir

Almog

et al. 2022

Child Neurology Open

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“…We noted that the patient often lies without intending to. Therefore, it is difficult for healthcare professionals to determine discrepancies between his words and actions [7]. For example, when clinicians ask the patient to show his PD recorded notebook, he always says that he does not have it with him, although the real reason was that he has not updated it.…”

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Unexpected cause of repeated peritoneal dialysis-related complications: a case study of autism spectrum disorder with normal intelligence quotient in an adolescent

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Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common communication disorder, with an incidence rate of 3%. In most cases, clinicians can diagnose ASD in a single outpatient visit. However, in the case of ASD patients without intellectual disability, clinicians are sometimes unaware for a prolonged period that a patient has ASD. In such cases, delayed diagnosis can lead to serious complications. Case presentation An 18-year-old boy had repeated severe complications of peritoneal dialysis. At the age of 9, the patient presented with proteinuria, and 5 years later, he developed end-stage kidney disease. Percutaneous renal biopsy and the clinical symptoms revealed focal segmental glomerulosclerosis with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease due to a gene mutation in INF2. Peritoneal dialysis was initiated at the age of 14, but led to many related complications, including peritonitis, hypertensive retinopathy and encephalopathy, and acute heart failure. Initially, we were unaware of his developmental characteristics and autism spectrum disorder without intellectual disability, but through lengthy observations by various healthcare professionals, his unique characteristics were noticed. Because the patient often displayed a discrepancy between behavior and speech, we cautiously studied his thoughts and behaviors, and developed a special approach to ensure safe peritoneal dialysis. Conclusions When many peritoneal dialysis-related complications occur in a patient with normal intelligence quotient, autism spectrum disorder should be considered as a possible cause.

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“…Studying pragmatic skills is an indeed a difficult enterprise due to the great variation in the manifestation of the expression and reception of these skills. Up to now, assessment of pragmatics and ToM is being performed directly or indirectly (Almehmadi, Tenbrink & Sanoudaki, 2020;Volden, & Phillips, 2010). For example, direct assessment of pragmatic skills is performed via psychometric tests, such as the Test of Pragmatic Language -TOPL-2 (Phelps-Terasaki & Phelps-Gunn, 2007) and the faux pas test (Baron-Cohen et al, 1999).…”

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Assessing Pragmatic Abilities in School-Age Children

Voulgaraki¹

2021

The European Conference on Language Learning 2021: Official Conference Proceedings

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This study aims at developing a measure for assessing pragmatic language abilities related to Theory of Mind (ToM) in Greek, typically developing, school-age children. We developed tories, based on previous work by Sodian and Frith (1992), colleagues (1999), and Giannakou (2008), in order to assess the reception of deception, faux pas and irony by school-age children. The story presentation was supported by pictures presented with video. We performed a validation study with adult Greek speakers and included the most comprehensible stories in our materials (32 stories in total). We tested 120 school-age children (64 females, Mean=10;2, SD=1.74). The results indicated high correctness scores (> 90%) for the deception and the faux pas tasks. Irony comprehension caused difficulties for the younger children and seemed to be significantly improved only at the age of 9. Furthermore, we performed an error analysis which showed that pragmatic errors were more frequent than semantic ones in the comprehension of these stories. Finally, we discuss these findings in the light of previous studies on the reception of deception, faux pas and irony (e.g., Baron-Cohen et al., 1999) and address the issue of age of acquisition in typically developing children.

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Pragmatic and Conversational Features of Arabic-Speaking Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Examining Performance and Caregivers' Perceptions

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References 43 publications

Characteristic Neuro-Linguistic Styles in Young Arabic Speaking Children Diagnosed with ASD

Characteristic Neuro-Linguistic Styles in Young Arabic Speaking Children Diagnosed with ASD

Unexpected cause of repeated peritoneal dialysis-related complications: a case study of autism spectrum disorder with normal intelligence quotient in an adolescent

Assessing Pragmatic Abilities in School-Age Children

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