Maternal Functional Speech to Children: A Comparison of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, and Typical Development

Autor/inn/en	Venuti, P.; de Falco, S.; Esposito, G.; Zaninelli, M.; Bornstein, Marc H.
Titel	Maternal Functional Speech to Children: A Comparison of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, and Typical Development
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 33 (2012) 2, S.506-517 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2011.10.018
Schlagwörter	Autism; Child Language; Down Syndrome; Developmental Delays; Language Skills; Language Acquisition; Verbal Communication; Comparative Analysis; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Children; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Language Usage; Play + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; 'Downs Syndrome; Down''s Syndrome'; Down-Syndrom; Entwicklungsverzögerung; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Child; Kind; Kinder; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Sprachgebrauch; Spiel
Abstract	Children with developmental disabilities benefit from their language environment as much as, or even more than, typically developing (TD) children, but maternal language directed to developmentally delayed children is an underinvestigated topic. The purposes of the present study were to compare maternal functional language directed to children with two developmental disabilities--autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Down syndrome (DS)--with TD children and to investigate relations of maternal functional language with child language skills. Participants were 60 mothers and their children with TD (n = 20), DS (n = 20), or ASD (n = 20). Children's mean developmental age was 24.77 months (SD = 8.47) and did not differ across the groups. Mother and child speech were studied during naturalistic play. We found (a) similarities in maternal functional language directed to the two groups of children with developmental disabilities compared to that directed to TD children and (b) a positive association between subcategories of information-salient speech and child mean length of utterance in TD dyads only. The clinical and developmental implications of these findings are discussed. (Contains 4 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10