How children with autism extend new words

摘要: Purpose How do children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) extend a noun to the category of objects it labels? Given their tendency perceive locally, extensions might be too narrow. social-communicative deficits and context in which knowledge partner promotes narrow extensions, broad. Method We tested these predictions by comparing 25 high-functioning school-aged ASD 29 age-matched peers typical development (TD) task that required extraction commonalities object referents use support inference. Results The readily extended given multiple exemplars, thereby demonstrating tacit words label categories ability override local perceptual biases they have. However, unlike TD, those who had concomitant weaknesses semantic syntactic language formed broad ca...