caa a22 4500 38633501X CHVBK 20180307111730.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S014271640000864X doi S014271640000864X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S014271640000864X Referential communication and response adequacy in autism and Down's syndrome [Elektronische Daten] This study investigated the ability of high-functioning verbal adolescents with autism or Down's syndrome to perform a referential communication task. It was predicted that autistic subjects would require more specific prompting to convey needed information to a listener than would subjects with Down's syndrome of the same verbal level. Subjects, 13 with autism and 14 with Down's syndrome, matched on verbal mental age, learned a simple board game, and were asked to teach it to a listener who used varying levels of prompting to elicit target information. Most subjects in the autistic group required specific prompting to produce the target information, whereas most subjects with Down's syndrome did not. Response adequacy was significantly higher in the Down's syndrome group than in the autistic group at the most general prompt level. Subjects with Down's syndrome used more gesture at the most general prompt level and when producing high adequacy responses, whereas subjects with autism used more gesture when producing low adequacy responses. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Loveland Katherine A. University of Texas Medical School Tunalia Belgin University of Texas Medical School Mcevoy Robin E. University of Texas Medical School Kelley Michelle L. Old Dominion University Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/3(1989-09), 301-313 0142-7164 10:3<301 1989 10 APS https://doi.org/10.1017/S014271640000864X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S014271640000864X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Loveland Katherine A. University of Texas Medical School NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tunalia Belgin University of Texas Medical School NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mcevoy Robin E. University of Texas Medical School NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kelley Michelle L. Old Dominion University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Psycholinguistics Cambridge University Press 10/3(1989-09), 301-313 0142-7164 10:3<301 1989 10 APS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge