Article
Syntactic complexity during conversation of boys with fragile X syndrome and Down syndrome.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - 1 Feb 2008
Price Johanna R, Roberts Joanne E, Hennon Elizabeth A, Berni Mary C, Anderson Kathleen L, Sideris John
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: This study compared the syntax of boys who have fragile X syndrome (FXS) with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with that of (a) boys who have Down syndrome (DS) and (b) typically developing (TD) boys. METHOD: Thirty-five boys with FXS only, 36 boys with FXS with ASD, 31 boys with DS, and 46 TD boys participated. Conversational language samples were evaluated for utterance length and syntactic...
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