Language growth in verbal autistic children from 5 to 11 years

A Brignell; KJ Williams; S Reilly; AT Morgan

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Language growth in verbal autistic children from 5 to 11 years

A Brignell, KJ Williams, S Reilly, AT Morgan

Autism Research | WILEY | Published : 2024

DOI: 10.1002/aur.3171

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Abstract

To examine predictors and growth in language for verbal autistic and non-autistic children with/without low language from 4 to 11 years. Receptive and expressive language trajectories were compared in a community sample of 1026 children at ages 5, 7, and 11 years, across four groups: two autistic groups; one with and one without low language; and two non-autistic groups; one with and one without low language. Groups were delineated on baseline assessment at 4 years. Non-autistic and autistic children with low language had lower mean expressive language scores than the non-autistic typical language group (22.26 and 38.53 units lower, respectively, p < 0.001), yet demonstrated faster language ..

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The manuscript was reviewed by two autistic autism researchers who were not involved in the study. We would like to thank them for their helpful suggestions. Funding for the National Health and Medical Research Council by Project Grants #237106, #9436958 and #1041947 from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and small grants from the Research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program and the Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University. The researchers acknowledge the NHMRC for salary support through Fellowships #491210 (S.R) and #1105008, #1195955 (A.T.M), and a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence Grant #1116976 (A.T.M). Infrastructure support was provided by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program and Monash University. Open access publishing facilitated by Monash University, as part of the Wiley - Monash University agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.