Journal article
Predictors and growth in receptive vocabulary from 4 to 8 years in children with and without autism spectrum disorder: A population-based study
A Brignell, T May, AT Morgan, K Williams
Autism | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Published : 2019
Abstract
Few studies have examined growth and predictors of receptive vocabulary in children with autism spectrum disorder. Here we aimed to compare receptive vocabulary from 4 to 8 years and identify predictors of receptive vocabulary, at 8 years, in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Participants were drawn from a nationally representative population-based study with two cohorts recruited at birth (N = 4983) and kindergarten (N = 5107). Receptive vocabulary growth was compared for children with and without autism spectrum disorder at 4 (n = 188, n = 7136), 6 (n = 215, n = 7297) and 8 (n = 216, n = 7408) years. Predictors of receptive vocabulary were analysed. Estimated mean recepti..
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Awarded by Royal Children's Hospital Foundation
Funding Acknowledgements
The researchers acknowledge the Australian NHMRC for salary support through a Practitioner Fellowship #1105008 (A.T.M.) and NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Speech and Language Neurobiology #1116976 (A.T.M., A.B.). The authors also acknowledge the Apex Foundation for Research into Intellectual Disabilities and The RCH Foundation for support of the APEX Australia Chair of Developmental Medicine (K.W.). Infrastructure support was provided by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Programme. The authors wish to thank Professor Cate Taylor, Telethon Kids Institute, for her review of the manuscript and insightful comments.