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Lauren McGuinness; Kirsten Abbot-Smith; Chiara Gambi – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
On average, groups of autistic individuals are more likely than groups of non-autistic individuals to exhibit unconventional conversational behaviours. We examined autistic and non-autistic children's social impressions of unconventional responding, as well as actual conversational behaviours in the same participants. Across two studies, 36…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Joseph C. Y. Lau; Emily Landau; Qingcheng Zeng; Ruichun Zhang; Stephanie Crawford; Rob Voigt; Molly Losh – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Many individuals with autism experience challenges using language in social contexts (i.e., pragmatic language). Characterizing and understanding pragmatic variability is important to inform intervention strategies and the etiology of communication challenges in autism; however, current manual coding-based methods are often time and labor…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Models, Pragmatics, Language Variation
Julie D. Weeks; Jennifer H. Madans; Lindsey I. Black; Nazik Elgaddal; Benjamin Zablotsky – National Center for Health Statistics, 2025
Objectives: This report presents national estimates of difficulties in functioning for children ages 2-17. Methods: 2021-2023 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data were used to assess difficulties in functioning among children. NHIS has included the Child Functioning Module, developed jointly by UNICEF and the Washington Group on Disability…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Disabilities, Visual Impairments