Grammatical Comprehension in Italian Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

ABSTRACT: Language deficits represent one of the most relevant factors that determine the clinical phenotype of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The main aim of the research was to study the grammatical comprehension of children with ASD. A sample of 70 well-diagnosed children (60 boys and 10 girls; aged 4.9-8 years) were prospectively recruited. The results showed that language comprehension is the most impaired language domain in ASD. These findings have important clinical implications, since the persistence of grammatical receptive deficits may have a negative impact on social, adaptive and learning achievements. As for the grammatical profiles, persistent difficulties were found during the school-age years in morphological and syntactic decoding in children with relatively preserved

SUBMITTER: Barsotti J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7464622 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature