Open AccessThe Language Development Process of Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Investigation into Gender Linguistic Differences
Author(s) -
Mohammad H. Al-khresheh,
Abdo Hasan AL-Qadri
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
world journal of english language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0711
pISSN - 1925-0703
DOI - 10.5430/wjel.v11n2p29
Subject(s) - psychology , active listening , autism spectrum disorder , comprehension , vocabulary , sentence , grammar , developmental psychology , autism , domain (mathematical analysis) , linguistics , descriptive statistics , cognitive psychology , computer science , natural language processing , communication , statistics , mathematics , philosophy , mathematical analysis
This paper is a descriptive correlational study that investigated the gender differences in the language development process among a group of 215 male and female bilingual children with autism spectrum disorder. A valid and reliable questionnaire was adopted and deployed to accomplish the study’s objective. The caregivers of these autistic children were requested to complete and submit the questionnaire. Data analysis was made possible with the help of different statistical software tools. The study concluded that gender did significantly impact the participants’ performance in four different linguistic domains: Listening, vocabulary, verbal grammar and sentence construction, and questions formulation. Females were found to have an upper edge over their male counterparts in these domains. Only one non-significant difference was observed in the listening comprehension domain, where both genders were found to experience the same level of difficulty. The limitations and recommendations of this study have been presented here as well.