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KMID : 1037320210140020001
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Korean Journal of Infant Mental Health
2021 Volume.14 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.27
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Direct Pragmatic Language Skills in Korean-Speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Lee Young-In
Jung Suk-Jin
Lee Kyung-Sook
Lee Su-Mi
Jang Ha-A-Yan
Cho Sook-Whan
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Abstract
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It has been reported in the literature that children with autistism spectrum disorder (ASD) are largely impaired in their communicative use of language. Certain skills such as commenting, acknowledging the listener, and requesting information were completely absent while other speech acts including responding to questions and requesting objects or actions and protesting were present (Cho, 2003; Hong et al., 2010). This paper seeks to determine the extent to which direct pragmatic intent is properly delivered in the utterances produced in a structured setting by Korean young children with and without autistic spectrum disorder(ASD). For this purpose, direct pragmatic abilities of the two groups of children between the ages of 32 and 37 months have been compared. It was found that, unlike typically developing children, children with ASD had more difficulties stating an intent to carry out an act and responding to and asking questions appropriately in a given context, in particular, than other types of direct pragmatic speech acts. Results suggest that it is likely that direct speech acts in children with ASD are impaired selectively, but not across-the-board.
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KEYWORD
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autism spectrum disorder, speech act, direct speech act, selective impairment, high-functioning autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, ASD
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