Journal Article

Language Skill Differences Further Distinguish Social Sub-types in Children with Autism

Shou, Xiaojing, Meng, Fanchao, Zhao, Weihua, Li, Qin, Kendrick, Keith M, Zhang, Rong, Zhu, Siyu, Xu, Xinjie, Zhang, Xiaolu, Song, Xinwei

2024

Overview

This study investigated heterogeneity in language skills of children with autism and their relationship with different autistic social subtypes. Data from 90 autistic and 30 typically developing children were analyzed. Results showed that autistic social subtypes varied in language skill problems (aloof > passive > active-but-odd). There was a negative association between aloof dimension scores and language performance but positive for the active-but-odd dimension and no association in the passive one. Moreover, aloof dimension score was the main contributor to language performance. A receiver operating characteristic analysis suggested language vocabulary as an additional component in differentiating autistic social subtypes. These findings demonstrate that variations in language skills in autistic children provide additional information for discriminating their social subtype.

• Publisher: Springer US,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Autism / Autism Spectrum Disorder / Autism Spectrum Disorders / Autistic children / Autistic Disorder - diagnosis / Behavior Rating Scales / Behavioral Science and Psychology / Care and treatment / Child / Child and School Psychology / Child Development / Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Children / College Science / Communication / Communication Disorders / Delayed Speech / Developmental Disabilities / Diagnosis / Educational Technology / Evaluation / Expressive Language / Health aspects / Humans / Interpersonal Relationship / Intervention / Language / Language Acquisition / Language disorders / Language Impairments / Language Processing / Language proficiency / Language Skills / Language variation / Mental disorders / Neurosciences / Original Paper / Pediatrics / Periodicals / Pervasive developmental disorders / Pragmatics / Psychology / Public Health / Receiver operating characteristic analysis / Receptive Language / Schizophrenia / Skills / Social Environment / Social interaction / Social Problems / Subtypes / Symptoms (Individual Disorders) / Verbal Communication / Vocabulary / Vocabulary Skills