Open AccessComprehension of “Narrow Focus” by Adolescents in the Autism Spectrum
Author(s) -
Osnat Segal,
Dafna Kaplan,
Smadar Patael,
Liat KishonRabin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
folia phoniatrica et logopaedica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1421-9972
pISSN - 1021-7762
DOI - 10.1159/000477399
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , sentence , comprehension , autism , vocabulary , audiology , linguistics , medicine , philosophy
The study compared the performance of adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) to that of age-matched peers with typical development (TD) and cognitive language-matched peers with TD on measures of identification and comprehension of "narrow focus."