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Background and Aim: Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder which can affect a person's cognitive and language skills. Since the human social life is highly dependent on cognitive and linguistic abilities, the use of these abilities is an important factor in the human growth and development. The production and perception of narrative discourse as one of the levels of language requires the use of cognitive and linguistic abilities. Considering the fact that the time line and the way it is expressed is one of the main components of narrative formation, the topic of time can be challenging in the narrative discourse for children with autism. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate the representation of some features of time such as aspect including perfective and imperfective aspects and grounding including foreground and background in the narrative discourse of children with high-functioning autism. Materials and Methods: In the current research, the representation of aspect and grounding in narrative discourse of Persian-speaking children with high-functioning autism disorder (HFAD) and normal children was studied following Hickman and also Roberts, Barjasteh Delforooz and Jahani’s classifications. To this end, 20 male children with High-functioning autism disorder (chronological age of 7 to 11 years) and 20 normal male children (chronological age of 7 to 11 years) participated in this study and the narratives were elicited base on “Horse” and “Cat” picture stories given by Hickman. The collected data were first studied and described. Then, they were analysed by using Mann Whitney U test. Results: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between HFAD and normal children in the representation of perfective aspect and grounding (P=0.05). Indeed, children with HFAD had a weaker representation compared to the normal children. Similarly, the children with HFAD had a weaker performance in representing perfective aspect and foreground as the core data in producing narrative, even though, the children with HFAD produced more marginal data and background compared to the normal children. Conclusion: According to the results, it seems that poor performance by the children with HFAD in comparison with normal children in the representation of some features of time like aspect and grounding in narrative discourse can be related to their cognitive and linguistic weaknesses.

omparing Certain Time Representation Features In High-functioning Autistic Children with Normal Children’s Narrative Discourse