Lexical Characteristics of Expressive Vocabulary in Toddlers withAutism Spectrum Disorder

摘要

PurposeVocabulary is a domain of particular challenge for many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Recent research has drawn attention to ways in which lexical characteristics relate to vocabulary acquisition. The current study tested the hypothesis that lexical characteristics account for variability in vocabulary size of young children with ASD, applying the Extended Statistical Learning theory of vocabulary delay in late talkers (href="#R53" rid="R53" class=" bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip" id="__tag_394231787">Stokes, Kern, & dos Santos, 2012) to toddlers with ASD.