Abstract
Autism spectrum disorders are neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by core deficits in social communication and restricted and repetitive behaviours. Research on speech characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder has limited. This article describes speech characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorders in Vietnam. Research method for collecting data was questionnaire. Teachers (N = 189) who were providing intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders answered the questionnaires. Based on responses provided by teachers, results showed speech characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder as follows: 30% of participants were nonverbal, 38% were word users, 26% were sentence users, and 5% were narrators. Among 70% of the verbal participants, speech productions were described as: stuttering or obstruction (n = 92, 48.7%), producing nonword sounds (n = 91, 48.7%), speaking inaccurately (n = 86, 45.5%), echolalia (n = 83, 43.9%), and lisper (n = 48, 25.4%). These speech characteristics of Vietnamese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorders were similar with findings found in other studies in other languages. These speech characteristics were also considered as positive behavioural markers for identifying autism spectrum disorders and were a component for comprehensive intervention programs for children with autism spectrum disorders.
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