title: Brief Report: Early Lexical Comprehension in Young Children with ASD: Comparing Eye-Gaze Methodology and Parent Report.
abstract: Lexical comprehension is commonly measured by parent report, but it may be difficult for parents of children with ASD to accurately judge their child's comprehension. We compared parent report to an eye-gaze measure of lexical comprehension in which participants observed pairs of images on a screen, along with accompanying speech that named one of the two images. Twenty-two toddlers with ASD participated. Trials were included if the target word was reported as unknown. Children spent significantly more time looking at the target after it was named than before (d = 0.66). These results provide evidence that eye-gaze measures can reveal emerging lexical knowledge in young children with ASD that may otherwise be overlooked.
authors.affiliation: Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1500 Highland Ave. Room 541, Madison, WI, 53705, USA. cgerickson@wisc.edu.
authors.forename: Courtney E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Venker
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Haebig
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Jenny R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Saffran
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ellis Weismer
mesh_terms: D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D032882:Comprehension; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D013067:Speech Perception; D014706:Verbal Learning; D014825:Vocabulary
keywords: Assessment; Autism spectrum disorder; Lexical comprehension; Parent report; Receptive vocabulary