Beyond Sentences: Using the Expression, Reception, and Recall of Narratives Instrument to Assess Communication in School-Aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

被引：15

作者：

Volden, Joanne ^{[1
]}

Dodd, Erin ^{[1
]}

Engel, Kathleen ^{[1
]}

Smith, Isabel M. ^{[2
,3
]}

Szatmari, Peter ^{[4
]}

Fombonne, Eric ^{[5
]}

Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie ^{[1
]}

Mirenda, Pat ^{[6
]}

Bryson, Susan ^{[2
,3
]}

Roberts, Wendy ^{[4
]}

Vaillancourt, Tracy ^{[7
]}

Waddell, Charlotte ^{[8
]}

Elsabbagh, Mayada ^{[9
]}

Bennett, Teresa ^{[10
]}

Georgiades, Stelios ^{[10
]}

Duku, Eric ^{[10
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

[2] Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, NS, Canada

[3] Isaak Walton Killam Childrens Hosp, Halifax, NS, Canada

[4] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

[5] Oregon Hlth & Sci Univ, Portland, OR 97201 USA

[6] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

[7] Univ Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

[8] Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC, Canada

[9] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ, Canada

[10] McMaster Univ, Hamilton, ON, Canada

来源：

JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH | 2017年 / 60卷 / 08期

基金：

加拿大健康研究院;

关键词：

HIGH-FUNCTIONING CHILDREN; INTERNAL-STATE-LANGUAGE; PRAGMATIC LANGUAGE; IMPAIRMENT; ABILITY; VINELAND; BEHAVIOR; MIND; INDIVIDUALS; COMPETENCE;

D O I：

10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-16-0168

中图分类号：

R36 [病理学]; R76 [耳鼻咽喉科学];

学科分类号：

100104 ; 100213 ;

摘要：

Purpose: Impairments in the social use of language are universal in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but few standardized measures evaluate communication skills above the level of individual words or sentences. This study evaluated the Expression, Reception, and Recall of Narrative Instrument (ERRNI; Bishop, 2004) to determine its contribution to assessing language and communicative impairment beyond the sentence level in children with ASD. Method: A battery of assessments, including measures of cognition, language, pragmatics, severity of autism symptoms, and adaptive functioning, was administered to 74 8-to 9-year-old intellectually able children with ASD. Results: Average performance on the ERRNI was significantly poorer than on the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Fourth Edition (CELF-4). In addition, ERRNI scores reflecting the number and quality of relevant story components included in the participants' narratives were significantly positively related to scores on measures of nonverbal cognitive skill, language, and everyday adaptive communication, and significantly negatively correlated with the severity of affective autism symptoms. Conclusion: Results suggest that the ERRNI reveals discourse impairments that may not be identified by measures that focus on individual words and sentences. Overall, the ERRNI provides a useful measure of communicative skill beyond the sentence level in school-aged children with ASD.

引用

页码：2228 / 2240

页数：13