Comparative Study of Comprehension and Production of Inflectional Categories of Noun between Persian-Speaking Typically Developing and High Functional Autistic Children with the Chronological Age of 7-9

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1 PhD, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran

2 PhD, Professor, Psychiatrist, Welfare Organization of Tehran Province, Iran

3 PhD, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Iran

4 MA Graduate of Linguistics, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran

Abstract

Background and Aims: Language acquisition naturally takes place in a certain space of time in typically developing children, but this is different in children with Autism spectrum. In Autism spectrum disorder, the child’s speech is defective for some reasons, and, in fact, language acquisition is accompanied by a deviation from language development. The present study aimed to provide a comparative study of the comprehension and production of inflectional categories of noun including number, definiteness, case, and possession between 7-9 year-old high functional autistic Persian-speaking children and their typically developing peers.
Materials and Methods: In the current study, the research data were gathered through three sub-tests: grammatical understanding, sentence imitation, and word production of Persian Told test. To this end, 15 typically developing children from ordinary schools and 15 high functional autistic children from Autism school in Kerman city were asked to answer the tests. Then, SPSS software, version 22.0, was used running t-test to compare the means between the groups.
Results: The research results showed that the comprehension and production of inflectional categories of noun in typically developing children were higher compared with those with high functional autism and there was a significant difference between the typically developing children and children with high functional autism in comprehension and production (P<0/05).
Conclusion: It seems that the typically developing children have a better performance in understanding and producing inflectional categories of noun compared with children with high functional autism.

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The Scientific Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 2
July 2020
Pages 33-42

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  • Receive Date: 01 July 2019
  • Revise Date: 26 July 2019
  • Accept Date: 11 August 2019
  • First Publish Date: 21 June 2020

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