Clarifying the associations between language and social development in autism: A study of non-native phoneme recognition

John N. Constantino; Dan Yang; Teddi L. Gray; Maggie M. Gross; Anna M. Abbacchi; Sarah C. Smith; Catherine E. Kohn; Patricia K. Kuhl

doi:10.1007/s10803-006-0269-9

Clarifying the associations between language and social development in autism: A study of non-native phoneme recognition

John N. Constantino, Dan Yang, Teddi L. Gray, Maggie M. Gross, Anna M. Abbacchi, Sarah C. Smith, Catherine E. Kohn, Patricia K. Kuhl

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Abstract

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterized by correlated deficiencies in social and language development. This study explored a fundamental aspect of auditory information processing (AIP) that is dependent on social experience and critical to early language development: the ability to compartmentalize close-sounding speech sounds into singular phonemes. We examined this ability by assessing whether close-sounding non-native language phonemes were more likely to be perceived as disparate sounds by school-aged children with high-functioning ASD (n = 27), than by unaffected control subjects (n = 35). No significant group differences were observed. Although earlier in autistic development there may exist qualitative deficits in this specific aspect of AIP, they are not an enduring characteristic of verbal school-aged children with ASD.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1256-1263
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Volume	37
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0269-9
State	Published - Aug 2007

Keywords

Auditory discrimination
Autism
Information processing
Language
Phonemic awareness
Social responsiveness scale
Speech perception

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