Predicting Receptive –Expressive Vocabulary Discrepancies in Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Conclusions Findings support the hypothesis that variation in attention toward a speaker might partially explain receptive –expressive vocabulary size discrepancy magnitude in children with ASD. Results are consistent with an input-processing deficit explanation of language impairment in this clinical population. Future studies should test whether attention toward a speaker is malleable and causally related to recepti ve–expressive discrepancies in children with ASD.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research