- Title
- Infant and Child-Directed Speech Used with Infants and Children at Risk or Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Scoping Review
- Creator
- Woolard, Alix; Lane, Alison E.; Campbell, Linda E.; Whalen, Olivia M.; Swaab, Linda; Karayanidis, Frini; Barker, Daniel; Murphy, Vanessa; Benders, Titia
- Relation
- NHMRC.1084816 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1084816
- Relation
- Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Vol. 9, Issue 2, p. 290-306
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40489-021-00253-y
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Infants diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (autism) have difficulty engaging in social communication and interactions with others and often experience language impairment. The use of infant-directed speech (IDS), which is the speech register used when interacting with infants, is associated with infant language and socio-communicative development. The aim of this study was twofold; the first aim was to scope the literature to determine if evidence exists for differences between the IDS caregivers use to infants at high-risk or those later diagnosed with autism, and the IDS typically spoken to neurotypical infants. The second aim was to investigate if any IDS characteristics used by caregivers of high-risk or diagnosed infant populations predicted language development. Twenty-six studies were included and provided evidence that high-risk and later diagnosed infants are exposed to similar amounts of IDS as their neurotypical peers. There is evidence, however, that the IDS used with high-risk and later diagnosed infants may comprise shorter utterances, more action-directing content, fewer questions, more attention bids, and more follow-in commenting. There is also evidence that more attention bids and follow-in commenting used to infants at high risk or those later diagnosed with autism were associated with better language abilities longitudinally.
- Subject
- infant-directed speech; autism spectrum disorder; high-risk infants; communication; child-directed speech
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1452959
- Identifier
- uon:44551
- Identifier
- ISSN:2195-7177
- Language
- eng
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