Two-year-olds at elevated risk for ASD can learn novel words from their parents

• DOI: 10.1017/s0305000921000428
• Publication Date: 2021-07-06T09:17:16Z
• Authors: Rianne VAN ROOIJEN; Emma Kate WARD; Maretha DE JONGE; Chantal KEMNER; Caroline JUNGE
• Keywords: Typically developing; Word learning

Abstract Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have smaller vocabularies in infancy compared to typically-developing children. To understand whether their stem from problems learning, our study a prospective risk sample of 18 elevated and 11 lower 24-month-olds on current vocabulary size word learning ability using paradigm which parents teach child words. Results revealed that both groups learned novel words, even though indicated infants at ASD knew fewer This suggests these early compromised cannot be solely linked difficulties formations.