Brief report: Are children with autism proficient word learners?

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 255-259

  Franken, Tessa E ^a,b   Lewis, Charlie ^a   Malone, Stephanie A ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Context; Joint attention; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 75949123865     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-009-0847-8     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. TP Alloway KJ Temple 2007 A comparison of working memory skills and learning in children with developmental coordination disorder and moderate learning difficulties Applied Cognitive Psychology 21 473 487 10.1002/acp.1284 (Pubitemid 46730352)
2. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
3. DA Baldwin 1993 Infants' ability to consult the speaker for clues to word reference Journal of Child Language 20 395 418 10.1017/S0305000900008345 8376476
4. S Baron-Cohen 1989 Perceptual role-taking and protodeclarative pointing in autism British Journal of Developmental Psychology 7 113 127
5. G Bartolucci S Pierce D Steiner PT Eppel 1976 Phonological investigation of verbal autistic and mentally retarded subjects Journal of Autism & Child Schizophrenia 6 303 316 10.1007/BF01537908 (Pubitemid 8019361)
6. Bloom, P. (2001). How children learn the meanings of words. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
7. J Boucher 1978 Echoic memory capacity in autistic children Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 19 161 166 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1978.tb00457.x 670335
8. Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2000). Joint attention, cultural learning and language acquisition. In A. M. Wetherby & B. M. Prizant (Eds.), Autism spectrum disorders: A transitional developmental perspective (Vol. 9, pp. 31-53). Baltimore: Brookes Publishing.
9. T Charman S Baron-Cohen J Swettenham G Baird A Drew A Cox 2003 Predicting language outcome in infants with autism and pervasive developmental disorder International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 38 265 285 10.1080/136820310000104830 (Pubitemid 36859639)
10. Frith, U. (1989). Autism: Explaining the enigma. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
11. CM Hale H Tager-Flusberg 2005 Brief report: The relationship between discourse deficits and autism symptomatology Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 35 519 524 10.1007/s10803-005-5065-4 16134037 (Pubitemid 41216438)
12. F Happé 1993 Communicative competence and theory of mind in autism: A test of relevance theory Cognition 48 101 119 10.1016/0010-0277(93) 90026-R 8243028
13. Hobson, R. P. (1993). Autism and the development of mind. Hove, East Sussex: Lawrence Erlbaum.
14. EA Jones EG Carr 2004 Joint attention in children with autism: Theory and intervention Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities 19 1 13 26 10.1177/10883576040190010301
15. M Kjelgaard H Tager-Flusberg 2001 An investigation of language impairments in autism: Implication for genetic subgroups Language and Cogntive Process 16 287 308 10.1080/01690960042000058 (Pubitemid 32440187)
16. Lord, C., & Paul, R. (1997). Language and communication in autism. In D. J. Cohen & F. R. Volkmar (Eds.), Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders (pp. 195-225). New York: Wiley.
17. Lord, C., Rutter, M., DiLavore, P. C., & Risi, S. (1999). Autism diagnostic observation schedule-WPS (ADOS-WPS). Los Angeles, CA: Western Psychological Services.
18. NJ Minshew G Goldstein 1993 Is autism an amnesic disorder? Evidence from the California verbal learning test Neuropsychology 7 209 216 10.1037/0894-4105.7.2.209
19. P Mundy M Sigman J Ungerer T Sherman 1986 Defining the social deficits of autism: The contribution of non-verbal communication measures Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 27 657 669 10.1111/j.1469-7610. 1986.tb00190.x
20. J Parish-Morris EA Hennon K Hirsh-Pasek R Michnick Golinkoff H Tager-Flusberg 2007 Children with autism illuminate the role of social intention in word learning Child Development 78 4 1265 1287 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007. 01065.x 17650138
21. MA Preissler S Carey 2005 What is the role of intentional inference in word learning? Evidence from autism Cognition 97 1 B13 B23 10.1016/j.cognition. 2005.01.008 15925356 (Pubitemid 41283890)
22. P Renner LG Klinger MR Klinger 2000 Implicit and explicit memory in autism: Is autism an amnesic disorder? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 30 3 14 10.1023/A:1005487009889 10819116 (Pubitemid 30216629)
23. J Russell C Jarrold L Henry 1996 Working memory in children with autism and moderate learning difficulties Journal of Child Psychology, Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 37 673 686 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01459.x
24. M Sigman P Mundy T Sherman J Ungerer 1986 Social interactions of autistic, mentally retarded and normal children and their caregiver Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 27 647 656 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1986.tb00189.x
25. H Tager-Flusberg 1996 Current theory and research on language and communication in autism Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 26 169 172 10.1007/BF02172006 8744479 (Pubitemid 26140722)
26. Tager-Flusberg, H., & Joseph, R. M. (2003). Identifying neurocognitive phenotypes of autism. In U. Firth & E. Hill (Eds.), Autism: Mind and brain (pp. 43-66). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
27. Tomasello, M. (2003). Constructing a language: A usage based theory of language acquisition. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
28. M Tomasello M Barton 1994 Learning words in non-ostensive contexts Developmental Psychology 30 639 650 10.1037/0012-1649.30.5.639
29. Wetherby, A. M., Prizant, B. M., & Schuler, A. L. (2000). Understanding the nature of communication and language impairments. In A. M. Wetherby & B. M. Prizant (Eds.), Autism spectrum disorders: A transactional perspective (pp. 109-141). Baltimore, MD: Brookes.
30. DL Williams G Goldstein PA Carpenter NJ Minshew 2005 Verbal and spatial memory in autism Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 35 747 756 10.1007/s10803-005-0021-x 16267641