Eye Movements While Processing Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Preliminary Outcomes and Benchmarking Data

Christopher A Was, Frank JSansosti and Erin Graham
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Christopher A Was: Kent State University, Department of Psychological Sciences, USA
Frank JSansosti: Kent State University, Lifespan Dev & Educ Sciences, USA
Erin Graham: Kent State University, USA

Global Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, 2018, vol. 4, issue 4, 76-81

Abstract: Research regarding eye-movements during the processing of syntactically ambiguous text provides important insights into the processes underlying text processing and comprehension. This report presents results of a pilot study that compared reading times and comprehension of syntactically ambiguous passages of 18 adolescents with higher functioning autism spectrum disorders (HFASD) and 16 typically developing control participants. The goal of this exploratory study was further to investigate the comprehension difficulties of children with HFASD using more direct, online analysis of reading abilities. Results suggest that control participants demonstrated patterns typically observed when readers encounter syntactically ambiguous sentences and that the HFASD participants did not use disambiguating information in the same manner as typically developing readers.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/GJIDD.2018.04.555645

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