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The Emergent Literacy Skills of Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, November 2016
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Title
The Emergent Literacy Skills of Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, November 2016
DOI 10.1007/s10803-016-2964-5
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Authors

M. F. Westerveld, J. Paynter, D. Trembath, A. A. Webster, A. M. Hodge, J. Roberts

Abstract

A high percentage of school-age students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have reading comprehension difficulties leading to academic disadvantage. These difficulties may be related to differences in children's emergent literacy development in the preschool years. In this study, we examined the relationship between emergent literacy skills, broader cognitive and language ability, autism severity, and home literacy environment factors in 57 preschoolers with ASD. The children showed strengths in code-related emergent literacy skills such as alphabet knowledge, but significant difficulties with meaning-related emergent literacy skills. There was a significant relationship between meaning-related skills, autism severity, general oral language skills, and nonverbal cognition. Identification of these meaning-related precursors will guide the targets for early intervention to help ensure reading success for students with ASD.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Unknown 235 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 15%
Student > Bachelor 28 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 10%
Researcher 20 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 8%
Other 39 17%
Unknown 73 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 60 25%
Social Sciences 27 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 5%
Linguistics 9 4%
Other 23 10%
Unknown 82 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 February 2017.
All research outputs
#4,471,788
of 25,888,937 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
#1,753
of 5,464 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#77,517
of 418,121 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
#27
of 53 outputs
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