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KMID : 0894920180180020051
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Journal of the Korean Association for Persons with Autism
2018 Volume.18 No. 2 p.51 ~ p.66
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Literate Lexicon and Syntactic Complexity of School-age Children with High-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Lee Hee-Ran
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Abstract
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This present study investigated the literate lexicon and syntactic complexity using narrative writing task in order to find out the literacy characteristics of Korean school-aged children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (HFA). Fifteen children with HFA and fifteen receptive vocabulary ability- matched typically developing children(TD) in grades 1-3 participated in this study.
The written narrative data were coded and analyzed by literate lexicon such as abstract nouns, high frequency academic vocabularies, Sino-Korean words, and cognitive verbs. The results of this study were as follows: First, HFA group showed significantly lower performance than the TD group on the writing task in the number of use of a MLC-w. Second, children with HFA have difficulties in syntax complexity. Second, the average number of clauses per C-unit showed significant difference between the two groups. There were significant differences in abstract nouns and cognitive verbs.
Children with HFA showed lower performances than typical children in story writing task. This results suggest that literate lexicon and syntactic complexity should be considered when assessing the language performance of writing task of them.
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KEYWORD
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literate lexicon , syntactic complexity , autism spectrum disorder
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