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Direct linkBlum, Alexander Mario – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Notions of accessibility bring to question the perceived deficits in narrative comprehension for autistic people. This deficit has been positioned as having a cognitive processing disposition towards local coherence, rather than global coherence. Rather than a unitary deficit in the individual, reduced performance on inferential narrative…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Cartoons, Inferences
Wicklund, Mark Donald – ProQuest LLC, 2012
References that speakers make can include both "conceptual information," which contributes to explicatures, and "procedural information," which constrains explicatures (Wilson & Sperber 1993). The current study compares the references made by autistic and typically developing children in naturally occurring conversational…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Hypothesis Testing, Language Usage
Johnson, Matt A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation will focus on the processing and learning of abstract, phrasal argument structure constructions. Chapter 1 provides the theoretical framework for abstract constructions, and illustrates the importance of such representations in speakers' linguistic knowledge. Chapter 2 reviews the evidence for meaning being associated with…
Descriptors: Autism, Prediction, Language Acquisition, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Oliver, Kimberly – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) affect 1 in every 88 U.S. children. ASDs have been described as neurological and developmental disorders impacting visual, motor, and visual-motor integration (VMI) abilities that affect academic achievement (CDC, 2010). Forty-five participants (22 ASD and 23 Typically Developing [TD]) 8 to 14 years old completed…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Comparative Analysis
Kutty, Seema – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Recent times have seen an increasing prevalence and incidence of children with ASD in school settings. Social, cognitive, and language process deficits directly impact the ability of children with ASD to effectively functioning within the complex social setting of schools. In particular, deficits are noted in the areas of social communication and…
Descriptors: Incidence, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Interpersonal Competence
Etemad, Pontea – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between executive functioning (EF), as manifested in everyday behavior, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms, and adaptive behaviors in a sample of preschoolers with ASD. Quantitative data from a clinical database were analyzed for this study. Participants in the ASD group (n=52) were a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Autism, Preschool Children, Adjustment (to Environment)
