{"title":"Narratives of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder","authors":"C. Westby","doi":"10.1177/10483950221120702","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Narrative skills are critical for effective social interactions and academic success. Consequently, speech-language pathologists regularly assess children’s narrative skills and design interventions to develop children’s narratives. Children with high-functioning autism may have age-appropriate vocabulary and syntactic skills yet exhibit significant difficulties in producing coherent narratives. Understanding the nature of these narrative difficulties is essential to creating effective intervention programs to develop children’s narrative abilities. Baixauli and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of 24 studies that had investigated narrative skills of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study was guided by three questions:","PeriodicalId":39491,"journal":{"name":"Word of Mouth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Word of Mouth","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10483950221120702","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Narrative skills are critical for effective social interactions and academic success. Consequently, speech-language pathologists regularly assess children’s narrative skills and design interventions to develop children’s narratives. Children with high-functioning autism may have age-appropriate vocabulary and syntactic skills yet exhibit significant difficulties in producing coherent narratives. Understanding the nature of these narrative difficulties is essential to creating effective intervention programs to develop children’s narrative abilities. Baixauli and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of 24 studies that had investigated narrative skills of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study was guided by three questions:
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