1. Autism and Residual Language Deficits
Aylin Küntay
Language and Communicative Disorders
Meeting 9

2. Recovery is possible
But only outcome measures are global cognitive measures and classroom placement
Language outcomes?
“optimal-outcome” children
Diagnosis between 1 and 5 years of age and functioning well in school now

3. Tests TACL (Auditory comprehension of language)
Expressive one-word picture vocabulary test
Stanford-Binet memory for sentences
Wug test of productive morphology

4. Tests Understanding of complex syntax Verb argument structure
Medial wh-phrases
How did the girl know what to take to school?
Verb argument structure
Noah’s Ark sentence enactment test
Verb compliance vs. frame compliance

5. Tests Categorical induction task
Prediction on the basis of same category
Rabbits love chocolate; this is another rabbit that looks different; does it love chocolate?
Certainty differences between mental state verbs
Think vs. know vs. guess
ToM
Unexpected location
Unexpected contents
Narrative capability (the frog story)
Many narrative variables, p. 814

6. Results
What are the residual deficits?