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Stabile, Mackenzie; Eigsti, Inge-Marie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Typical speakers tend to adopt words used by their conversational partners. This "lexical alignment" enhances communication by reducing ambiguity and promoting a shared understanding of the topic under discussion. Lexical alignment has been little studied to date in autism spectrum disorder (ASD); furthermore, it has been…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Communication, Adolescents
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Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Irvine, Christina A. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
This study tests the role of verbal mediation during theory of mind processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Adolescents with ASD or typical development completed a false belief task while simultaneously performing a verbal or nonverbal load task. There was no group difference in false belief "accuracy;" however, under verbal load,…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Theory of Mind, Adolescents