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Computer‐assisted linguistic analysis of an autistic adolescent's language: implications for the diagnosis of Aspberger's syndrome and atypical psychoses
Author(s) -
KING K.,
FRASER W. I,
THOMAS P. F.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01371.x
Subject(s) - psychology , linguistic analysis , linguistics , autism , language disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , spoken language , developmental psychology , psychiatry , cognition , philosophy
. This study illustrates the use of a computer‐assisted linguistic analysis technique to compare the spoken language of an adolescent, diagnosed in childhood as autistic, with that of normal and schizophrenic individuals. A distinctive profile, in keeping with accounts in the literature of autistic speech, was noted to be radically different from that found in linguistic analysis of schizophrenic speech. This distinctive profile was mirrored by her written linguistic analysis. Changes indicative of some improvement in language function were seen on re‐recording after 5 years. Implications of this technique for differential diagnosis of Aspberger's syndrome and atypical psychoses are mentioned.