Investigating sex differences in narrative production of autistic pre-adolescents and adolescents / Charlotte DUMONT ; Philippine GEELHAND ; Mikhail KISSINE in Research in Autism, 124 (June 2025)  

Public ISBD [article]  inResearch in Autism > 124 (June 2025) . - 202589 Titre : Investigating sex differences in narrative production of autistic pre-adolescents and adolescents Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Charlotte DUMONT, Auteur ; Philippine GEELHAND, Auteur ; Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur Article en page(s) : 202589 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Autism  Adolescents  Narratives  Sex differences  Coherence  Discourse analysis Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Autism is less frequently diagnosed in females, and autistic females are often diagnosed later in life than males. The sex imbalance in autism could be partly due to a communicative advantage in autistic females. To better understand sex differences in language of autistic individuals in late-childhood and adolescence, we compared narrative coherence of autistic females, autistic males, non-autistic females and non-autistic males. Narrative production was elicited from a total of 113 participants (mean age 12.32), based on a wordless picture book. Relying on a thorough coding scheme, we analysed the following categories: story grammar, connectives, references to characters and internal state language. Independently of sex, autistic individuals produced less coherent narratives than non-autistic individuals. Narratives by autistic adolescents included more comments unrelated to the story and more image descriptions, less causal connectives, less internal state language and fewer mentions of main characters. Autistic participants also used more indefinite expressions to refer to story characters than their non-autistic peers. No significant sex differences were found between autistic males and females. Based on a sex-balanced sample, this study confirms prior results on narrative production by autistic individuals and provides new insights into referential expression choices. Importantly, this study finds no evidence for lower atypicality of communicative profiles of autistic females, as measured by a narrative task. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2025.202589 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=556 [article] Investigating sex differences in narrative production of autistic pre-adolescents and adolescents [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Charlotte DUMONT, Auteur ; Philippine GEELHAND, Auteur ; Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur . - 202589. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Research in Autism > 124 (June 2025) . - 202589 Mots-clés : Autism  Adolescents  Narratives  Sex differences  Coherence  Discourse analysis Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Autism is less frequently diagnosed in females, and autistic females are often diagnosed later in life than males. The sex imbalance in autism could be partly due to a communicative advantage in autistic females. To better understand sex differences in language of autistic individuals in late-childhood and adolescence, we compared narrative coherence of autistic females, autistic males, non-autistic females and non-autistic males. Narrative production was elicited from a total of 113 participants (mean age 12.32), based on a wordless picture book. Relying on a thorough coding scheme, we analysed the following categories: story grammar, connectives, references to characters and internal state language. Independently of sex, autistic individuals produced less coherent narratives than non-autistic individuals. Narratives by autistic adolescents included more comments unrelated to the story and more image descriptions, less causal connectives, less internal state language and fewer mentions of main characters. Autistic participants also used more indefinite expressions to refer to story characters than their non-autistic peers. No significant sex differences were found between autistic males and females. Based on a sex-balanced sample, this study confirms prior results on narrative production by autistic individuals and provides new insights into referential expression choices. Importantly, this study finds no evidence for lower atypicality of communicative profiles of autistic females, as measured by a narrative task. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2025.202589 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=556

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