Brief Report: autistic students read between lines

Fajardo, I. and Joseph, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4325-4628 (2022) Brief Report: autistic students read between lines. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. ISSN 0162-3257 doi: 10.1007/s10803-022-05648-2

Abstract/Summary

Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to struggle with reading comprehension, often resulting in difficulties with inference generation. While most of the previous research has focused on the product of comprehension, we report a preliminary validation of an experimental reading task in English to measure, by means of eye-movements, the time course of generating consistent and inconsistent inferences during reading. The task was tested with a group of 12 students with ASD (age range: 10-15) who showed accuracy differences between inference and control conditions. Participants spent longer reading in the inconsistent than control condition regarding go past times and second pass times and made more regressions into the target and post-target regions, but these differences were not significant.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/105716
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/s10803-022-05648-2
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Institute of Education > Language and Literacy in Education
Publisher	Springer
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