Characterizing the early vocabulary profiles of preverbal and minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder

E Haebig, E Jiménez, CR Cox, TT Hills - Autism, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Children with autism spectrum disorder often have significant language delays. But do they
learn language differently than neurotypical toddlers? We compared the lexical skills of 64 …

[HTML][HTML] An examination of measures of young children's interest in natural object categories

R Madhavan, B Malem, L Ackermann, R Mundry… - Cortex, 2024 - Elsevier
Developmental research utilizes various different methodologies and measures to study the
cognitive development of young children; however, the reliability and validity of such …

Psychophysiological and eye-tracking markers of speech and language processing in neurodevelopmental disorders: New options for difficult-to-test populations

AP Key, CE Venker… - American journal on …, 2020 - meridian.allenpress.com
It can be challenging to accurately assess speech and language processing in preverbal or
minimally verbal individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD) using standardized …

Early childhood parent-reported speech problems in small and large for gestational age term-born and preterm-born infants: a cohort study

G Jee, SJ Kotecha, M Chakraborty, S Kotecha… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective (1) To assess if preterm and term small for gestational age (SGA) or large for
gestational age (LGA) infants have more parent-reported speech problems in early …

Factors associated with receptive and expressive language in autistic children and siblings: A systematic review

M Muès, S Schaubroeck, E Demurie… - Autism & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background & aims Language abilities of autistic children and children at elevated
likelihood for autism (EL-siblings) are highly heterogeneous, and many of them develop …

Parent Certainty and Consistency When Completing Vocabulary Checklists in Young Autistic Children

E Lorang, A Hanania, CE Venker - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Using a novel parent report measure, this study investigated whether asking
parents to rate their certainty when reporting on child vocabulary skills provided additional …

Spoken language comprehension in children and adults with Angelman Syndrome

AP Key, S Roth, C Venker - Journal of communication disorders, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Objective evaluation of receptive communication abilities in nonspeaking
individuals using standardized behavioral measures can be complicated by co-occurring …

Stick with Static: Unexpected Detrimental Effects of Visual Movement in a Looking-While-Listening Task

E Lorang, K Peffers, JR Johnson, CE Venker - Journal of Autism and …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose Looking while listening (LWL) tasks track eye movements while children view
images (eg, a dog and a ball) and hear an auditory prompt (eg,“Find the ball”), allowing …

Specificity of phonological representations for children with autism spectrum disorder

R Pomper, S Ellis Weismer, J Saffran… - Journal of autism and …, 2019 - Springer
This study investigated whether children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are sensitive
to mispronunciations of familiar words and compared their sensitivity to children with typical …

Coarticulation facilitates lexical processing for toddlers with autism

R Pomper, SE Weismer, J Saffran, J Edwards - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are delayed in learning language. The
mechanisms underlying these delays are not well understood but may involve differences in …