Disentangling Language Disorder and Bilingualism in Children with Developmental Language Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Writing.

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Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria 
Abstract

Twenty-eight Albanian-Greek bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder and 28 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder but no language impairment, along with 28 typically-developing, age-, Performance IQ- and socioeconomic status-matched bilingual children were asked to produce two expository texts which were coded for spelling (phonological, grammatical, orthographic) errors, stress and punctuation use. The children's expressive vocabulary, current language use and home language history were also measured. The results show that the bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder were particularly vulnerable to spelling errors, while their bilingual peers with Autism Spectrum Disorder were rather challenged by stress and punctuation. The evidence speaks in favor of distinct patterns of writing impairment across the bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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Funder: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Keywords
Autism spectrum disorder, Bilingualism, Developmental language disorder, Punctuation, Spelling, Writing, Humans, Child, Multilingualism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Language, Language Development Disorders, Writing
Journal Title
J Autism Dev Disord
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0162-3257
1573-3432
Volume Title
53
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC