Abstract

Differences in the Spoken Discourse Produced by the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Children

Highlights

  • ASD is a disorder that comes under behaviour, communication and interaction difficulties

  • The results showed that the Sounds of Intent (SoI) Framework could create an avenue for the integration of music as the classroom activities for children with autism

  • In conclusion, two similarities were found; firstly, all the three groups; LFA, MFA and HFA demonstrated the seven communicative intent signals and secondly, their utterances matched with the elements in DAT (2019)

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Introduction

ASD is a disorder that comes under behaviour, communication and interaction difficulties. Since the current study witnessed the uneven language development among the ASD children, the spoken discourses of the low, medium and high functioning ASD children were analysed and compared for their communicative intent and communicative strategies. With this note and since ASD children are low and minimally verbal and some are even non-verbal and produce notably disfluent speech, there have been many studies conducted to look at communicative intent of the spoken discourse among autism. Besides that, Chenausky et al (2019) investigated the extent of motor speech impairment from 54 low-verbal and minimally verbal ASD children They found that there was a need to develop spoken language interventions to cater especially the minimally verbal individuals with autism. Data were analysed by using the theories and presented in the following chapter

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