- 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
- Rights
- This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40489-021-00253-y
- Language
- eng
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