Journal article
Interaction Behaviors of Bilingual Parents With Their Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology, v 47(1), pp S321-S328
01 Jan 2018
PMID: 28323454
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Abstract
Given concerns that bilingual exposure might confuse children with disabilitiesincluding autism spectrum disorder (ASD)bilingual parents may restrict exposure to one language, often the community-dominant language. We investigated a potential consequence of this decision; the possibility that non-native language use might influence parental communicative behaviors during interaction with the child. We recruited 39 parent-child dyads, each with a young child with ASD (mostly boys) and parent/carer (mostly mothers). Parents were either monolingual speakers of community-dominant English (n = 20) or bilingual with English as the second language (n = 19). We confirmed our assumption that the latter group would have significantly poorer non-native English language via standardized assessment of expressive vocabulary, and ensured children were matched on age, ASD symptoms, and developmental level. We sampled parent-child interactionincluding in each of bilinguals' native and non-native languagesand coded parents' amount and complexity of speech, communicative synchrony, and imitations and expansions of their child's speech. Few differences presented across bilingual parents' native versus non-native language samples, but this group showed reduced synchrony and use of expansions compared to monolinguals. Further, bilinguals' English-language knowledge was associated with self-reported comfort using this language and with two coded interaction measures. These empirical data only partially support qualitative accounts that non-native language use may influence bilingual parents' interaction behaviors with their young children. With growing rates of ASD diagnosis and increasing cultural/linguistic diversity around the world, further dedicated clinical and experimental attention to this issue is clearly warranted.
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- Title
- Interaction Behaviors of Bilingual Parents With Their Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Creators
- Kristelle Hudry - La Trobe UniversityLisa Rumney - La Trobe UniversityNicole Pitt - La Trobe UniversityJosephine Barbaro - La Trobe UniversityGiacomo Vivanti - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology, v 47(1), pp S321-S328
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 8
- Grant note
- School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000453918200026
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85015786201
- Other Identifier
- 991019168687904721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Clinical
- Psychology, Developmental