Document Type

Article

Version

Publisher's PDF

Publication Title

Journal of Child Language

Volume

40

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Abstract

For sixty-seven children with ASD (age 1;6 to 5;11), mean Total Vocabulary score on the Language Development Survey (LDS) was 65·3 words; twenty-two children had no reported words; and twenty-one children had 1–49 words. When matched for vocabulary size, children with ASD and children in the LDS normative sample did not differ in semantic category or word-class scores. Q correlations were large when percentage use scores for the ASD sample were compared with those for samples of typically developing children as well as children with vocabulariesnouns, represented a variety of semantic categories, and overlapped substantially with the words having highest percentage use scores in samples of typically developing children as well as children with lexicons ofchildren, suggesting delayed but not deviant lexical composition.

DOI

10.1017/S0305000912000232

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