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Effect of speaker gaze on word learning in fragile X syndrome: a comparison with nonsyndromic autism spectrum disorder.
In: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, vol 58, iss 2 (2015)
Abstract: PurposeThis study examined use of a speaker's direction of gaze during word learning by boys with fragile X syndrome (FXS), boys with nonsyndromic autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and typically developing (TD) boys.MethodA fast-mapping task with follow-in and discrepant labeling conditions was administered. We expected that the use of speaker gaze would lead to participants selecting as the referent of the novel label the object to which they attended in follow-in trials and the object to which the examiner attended in the discrepant labeling trials. Participants were school-aged boys with FXS (n=18) or ASD (n=18) matched on age, intelligence quotient, and nonverbal cognition and younger TD boys (n=18) matched on nonverbal cognition.ResultsAll groups performed above chance in both conditions, although the TD boys performed closest to the expected pattern. Boys with FXS performed better during follow-in than in discrepant label trials, whereas TD boys and boys with ASD did equally well in both trial types. The type of trial administered first influenced subsequent responding. Error patterns also distinguished the groups.ConclusionThe ability to utilize a speaker's gaze during word learning is not as well developed in boys with FXS or nonsyndromic ASD as in TD boys of the same developmental level.
Keyword: Autism; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Behavioral and Social Science; Brain Disorders; Child; Child Language; Clinical Research; Clinical Sciences; Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities; Cognition; Cognitive Sciences; Fixation; Fragile X Syndrome; Humans; Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; Intelligence; Linguistics; Male; Mental Health; Ocular; Pediatric; Preschool; Rare Diseases; Speech Perception; Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology; Verbal Learning
URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8703n4fj
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