Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2020 Dec 1;34(12):1088-1111. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2020.1719208. Epub 2020 Feb 3.
This study examined grammatical judgment and production in 22 male participants with idiopathic autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who had a range of nonverbal IQ from 44 to 111 (mean = 72.23) and were between 9.42 and 16.75 years of age (mean = 13.45). Relationships between grammatical judgment and production and nonverbal IQ were examined. Participants completed the Test of Early Grammatical Impairment (TEGI) to describe relative strengths and weaknesses in their ability to judge and produce grammatical tense. Participants also completed the Leiter-R to assess the relationship between nonverbal IQ and grammatical judgment and production. Relative strengths were found across participants in judging correct use of subject-verb agreement in sentences, and correctly producing verbs that linked sentences (e.g., auxiliaries and copulas of " she resting?"). Participants had the greatest difficulty judging the correctness of a sentence using a dropped verb tense marker (e.g., "He happy now") and producing irregular verb tense markers. Nonverbal IQ did not contribute to the variance in performance on any tasks of grammaticality judgment or production. Grammatical markers that mark tense in past tense verbs as well as the production of auxiliary may be an important focus of language intervention for boys with ASD.
本研究考察了 22 名男性自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）患者的语法判断和产生能力，他们的非言语智商从 44 到 111 不等（平均值为 72.23），年龄在 9.42 到 16.75 岁之间（平均值为 13.45）。研究检查了语法判断和产生与非言语智商之间的关系。参与者完成了早期语法障碍测试（TEGI），以描述他们在判断和产生语法时态方面的相对优势和劣势。参与者还完成了 Leiter-R 测试，以评估非言语智商与语法判断和产生之间的关系。在判断句子中主语-动词一致性的正确用法和正确使用连接句子的动词（例如，“she resting？”中的助动词和系动词）方面，所有参与者都表现出相对优势。参与者在判断使用动词时态标记词的句子的正确性方面存在最大困难（例如，“He happy now”），在产生不规则动词时态标记词方面也存在困难。非言语智商不能解释语法判断或产生任务表现的差异。标记过去时态动词时态的语法标记以及助动词的产生可能是自闭症男孩语言干预的一个重要重点。
