Assessing receptive verb knowledge in late talkers and autistic children: advances and cautionary tales.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Using eye-tracking, we assessed the receptive verb vocabularies of age-matched late talkers and typically developing children (experiment 1) and autistic preschoolers (experiment 2). We evaluated how many verbs participants knew and how quickly they processed the linguistic prompt. Our goal is to explore how these eye-gaze measures can be operationalized to capture verb knowledge in late talkers and autistic children.

Method

Participants previewed two dynamic scenes side-by-side (e.g., "stretching" and "clapping") and were then prompted to find the target verb's referent. Children's eye-gaze behaviors were operationalized using established approaches in the field with modifications in consideration for the type of stimuli (dynamic scenes versus static images) and the

SUBMITTER: Horvath S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10717976 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature