Lexical Characteristics of Expressive Vocabulary in Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorder

摘要: Purpose Vocabulary is a domain of particular challenge for many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Recent research has drawn attention to ways in which lexical characteristics relate vocabulary acquisition. The current study tested the hypothesis that account variability size young ASD, applying extended statistical learning theory delay late talkers (Stokes, Kern, & Dos Santos, 2012) toddlers ASD. Method Parents reported words produced by ASD (n = 57; age 21–37 months) or without 41; 22–26 on MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories. average phonological neighborhood density, word frequency, and length each toddler's lexicon were calculated. These served as predictors size. Results Findings differed according subsamples. Word was most consi...