Bilingual exposure might enhance L1 development in Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children: Evidence from the production of focus / Albert Kwing Lok LEE ; Hoi Kwan YUEN ; Fang LIU ; Virginia YIP in Autism, 28-7 (July 2024)  

Public ISBD [article]  inAutism > 28-7 (July 2024) . - p.1795-1808 Titre : Bilingual exposure might enhance L1 development in Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children: Evidence from the production of focus Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Albert Kwing Lok LEE, Auteur ; Hoi Kwan YUEN, Auteur ; Fang LIU, Auteur ; Virginia YIP, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.1795-1808 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : autism spectrum disorders  bilingualism  production of focus Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : This study investigated bilingualism effects on the production of focus in 5- to 9-year-old Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children?s L1 Cantonese, compared to their monolingual autistic peers as well as monolingual and bilingual typically developing children matched in nonverbal IQ, working memory, receptive vocabulary and maternal education. The results from an elicitation task showed that monolingual autistic children had significantly lower accuracy than typically developing children in producing focus in subject and object positions. Bilingual autistic children in general performed similarly to monolingual autistic children but outperformed their monolingual autistic peers in the production of object focus with a significantly higher accuracy. The total amount of English exposure did not relate to the accuracy of focus production in autistic and typically developing children. Our results also revealed autistic children?s tendency to make use of less prosodic means to produce focus. The overall findings indicate that bilingual exposure has no detrimental effect on the language skills of autistic children but might enhance the production of focus in bilingual autistic children?s L1 Cantonese. Lay abstract It is commonly believed among professionals and parents that exposure to two languages imposes an additional burden on children with autism spectrum disorder. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to support or reject this belief. With the prevalence of autism and an increasing number of children growing up bilingual, it is urgent to understand how bilingual exposure interacts with autism. Bilingual autistic children from Hong Kong, with Cantonese as their first language and English as their second language, took part in the study. We used a production game to test how bilingual autistic children use different levels of linguistic knowledge to produce contrastive information in real conversations, compared to their monolingual autistic peers and typically developing children matched in language abilities, nonverbal IQ, working memory and maternal education. We found that bilingual autistic children performed as good as typically developing children in general, and they even performed better than monolingual autistic children. Our findings suggest a bilingual advantage in autistic children in conveying constative information in sentences. We thus encourage parents to engage their children in rich bilingual environments. Clinicians, educators and other professionals may also consider adding bilingual aspects in training programmes to support families raising bilingual autistic children. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13623613231207449 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=532 [article] Bilingual exposure might enhance L1 development in Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children: Evidence from the production of focus [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Albert Kwing Lok LEE, Auteur ; Hoi Kwan YUEN, Auteur ; Fang LIU, Auteur ; Virginia YIP, Auteur . - p.1795-1808. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Autism > 28-7 (July 2024) . - p.1795-1808 Mots-clés : autism spectrum disorders  bilingualism  production of focus Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : This study investigated bilingualism effects on the production of focus in 5- to 9-year-old Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children?s L1 Cantonese, compared to their monolingual autistic peers as well as monolingual and bilingual typically developing children matched in nonverbal IQ, working memory, receptive vocabulary and maternal education. The results from an elicitation task showed that monolingual autistic children had significantly lower accuracy than typically developing children in producing focus in subject and object positions. Bilingual autistic children in general performed similarly to monolingual autistic children but outperformed their monolingual autistic peers in the production of object focus with a significantly higher accuracy. The total amount of English exposure did not relate to the accuracy of focus production in autistic and typically developing children. Our results also revealed autistic children?s tendency to make use of less prosodic means to produce focus. The overall findings indicate that bilingual exposure has no detrimental effect on the language skills of autistic children but might enhance the production of focus in bilingual autistic children?s L1 Cantonese. Lay abstract It is commonly believed among professionals and parents that exposure to two languages imposes an additional burden on children with autism spectrum disorder. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to support or reject this belief. With the prevalence of autism and an increasing number of children growing up bilingual, it is urgent to understand how bilingual exposure interacts with autism. Bilingual autistic children from Hong Kong, with Cantonese as their first language and English as their second language, took part in the study. We used a production game to test how bilingual autistic children use different levels of linguistic knowledge to produce contrastive information in real conversations, compared to their monolingual autistic peers and typically developing children matched in language abilities, nonverbal IQ, working memory and maternal education. We found that bilingual autistic children performed as good as typically developing children in general, and they even performed better than monolingual autistic children. Our findings suggest a bilingual advantage in autistic children in conveying constative information in sentences. We thus encourage parents to engage their children in rich bilingual environments. Clinicians, educators and other professionals may also consider adding bilingual aspects in training programmes to support families raising bilingual autistic children. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13623613231207449 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=532

Comprehension of Prosodically and Syntactically Marked Focus in Cantonese-Speaking Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder / Haoyan GE in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53-3 (March 2023)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders > 53-3 (March 2023) . - p.1255-1268 Titre : Comprehension of Prosodically and Syntactically Marked Focus in Cantonese-Speaking Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Haoyan GE, Auteur ; Fang LIU, Auteur ; Hoi Kwan YUEN, Auteur ; Aishu CHEN, Auteur ; Virginia YIP, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.1255-1268 Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : This study investigated the comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus by 5- to 8-year-old Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children listened to question-answer dialogues while looking at pictures depicting the scenarios, and judged whether the answers were correct responses to the questions. The results showed that children with ASD exhibited typically developing (TD)-like performance in the use of syntactic cues to understand focus, although they were significantly slower than their TD peers. However, children with ASD had more difficulties than their TD peers in utilizing prosodic cues in focus comprehension. These findings suggest that the comprehension difficulties found in children with ASD are domain-selective, and children with ASD are sensitive to language-specific focus marking strategies. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05770-1 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=500 [article] Comprehension of Prosodically and Syntactically Marked Focus in Cantonese-Speaking Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Haoyan GE, Auteur ; Fang LIU, Auteur ; Hoi Kwan YUEN, Auteur ; Aishu CHEN, Auteur ; Virginia YIP, Auteur . - p.1255-1268. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders > 53-3 (March 2023) . - p.1255-1268 Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : This study investigated the comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus by 5- to 8-year-old Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children listened to question-answer dialogues while looking at pictures depicting the scenarios, and judged whether the answers were correct responses to the questions. The results showed that children with ASD exhibited typically developing (TD)-like performance in the use of syntactic cues to understand focus, although they were significantly slower than their TD peers. However, children with ASD had more difficulties than their TD peers in utilizing prosodic cues in focus comprehension. These findings suggest that the comprehension difficulties found in children with ASD are domain-selective, and children with ASD are sensitive to language-specific focus marking strategies. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05770-1 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=500

The development of co-speech gesture and its semantic integration with speech in 6- to 12-year-old children with autism spectrum disorders / Wing-Chee SO in Autism, 19-8 (November 2015)  

Public ISBD [article]  inAutism > 19-8 (November 2015) . - p.956-968 Titre : The development of co-speech gesture and its semantic integration with speech in 6- to 12-year-old children with autism spectrum disorders Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Wing-Chee SO, Auteur ; Miranda Kit-Yi WONG, Auteur ; Ming LUI, Auteur ; Virginia YIP, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.956-968 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : autism spectrum disorders  communication and language  gesture  school-aged children  semantic integration Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Previous work leaves open the question of whether children with autism spectrum disorders aged 6–12?years have delay in producing gestures compared to their typically developing peers. This study examined gestural production among school-aged children in a naturalistic context and how their gestures are semantically related to the accompanying speech. Delay in gestural production was found in children with autism spectrum disorders through their middle to late childhood. Compared to their typically developing counterparts, children with autism spectrum disorders gestured less often and used fewer types of gestures, in particular markers, which carry culture-specific meaning. Typically developing children’s gestural production was related to language and cognitive skills, but among children with autism spectrum disorders, gestural production was more strongly related to the severity of socio-communicative impairment. Gesture impairment also included the failure to integrate speech with gesture: in particular, supplementary gestures are absent in children with autism spectrum disorders. The findings extend our understanding of gestural production in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders during spontaneous interaction. The results can help guide new therapies for gestural production for children with autism spectrum disorders in middle and late childhood. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361314556783 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=269 [article] The development of co-speech gesture and its semantic integration with speech in 6- to 12-year-old children with autism spectrum disorders [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Wing-Chee SO, Auteur ; Miranda Kit-Yi WONG, Auteur ; Ming LUI, Auteur ; Virginia YIP, Auteur . - p.956-968. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Autism > 19-8 (November 2015) . - p.956-968 Mots-clés : autism spectrum disorders  communication and language  gesture  school-aged children  semantic integration Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Previous work leaves open the question of whether children with autism spectrum disorders aged 6–12?years have delay in producing gestures compared to their typically developing peers. This study examined gestural production among school-aged children in a naturalistic context and how their gestures are semantically related to the accompanying speech. Delay in gestural production was found in children with autism spectrum disorders through their middle to late childhood. Compared to their typically developing counterparts, children with autism spectrum disorders gestured less often and used fewer types of gestures, in particular markers, which carry culture-specific meaning. Typically developing children’s gestural production was related to language and cognitive skills, but among children with autism spectrum disorders, gestural production was more strongly related to the severity of socio-communicative impairment. Gesture impairment also included the failure to integrate speech with gesture: in particular, supplementary gestures are absent in children with autism spectrum disorders. The findings extend our understanding of gestural production in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders during spontaneous interaction. The results can help guide new therapies for gestural production for children with autism spectrum disorders in middle and late childhood. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361314556783 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=269

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