caa a22 4500 463249836 CHVBK 20180405153336.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10803-006-0264-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10803-006-0264-1 Brief Report: A Scale for Rating Conversational Impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder [Elektronische Daten] [Jessica de Villiers, Jonathan Fine, Gary Ginsberg, Liezanne Vaccarella, Peter Szatmari] There are few well-standardized measures of conversational breakdown in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The study's objective was to develop a scale for measuring pragmatic impairments in conversations of individuals with ASD. We analyzed 46 semi-structured conversations of children and adolescents with high-functioning ASD using a functional linguistic paradigm. Five constructs were developed that assessed difficulties related to the pragmatics of conversation: atypical intonation; semantic drift; terseness; pedantic speech; perseveration. The scale shows good inter-rater reliability and variation in the scales is not simply a reflection of IQ or language competence. This tool represents a way of characterizing language use in ASD and is an initial step towards developing a tool to evaluate change in degree of social impairments in conversation. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2006 ASD nationallicence Asperger syndrome nationallicence Pragmatic difficulties nationallicence Linguistic analysis nationallicence Conversation nationallicence de Villiers Jessica Department of English, University of British Columbia, V8N 1Z4, Voncouver, BC, Canada aut Fine Jonathan Department of English, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel aut Ginsberg Gary School of Public Health and Ministry of Health, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel aut Vaccarella Liezanne Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Patterson Bldg., Chedoke site, McMaster Children's hospital 1200 Main Street, L8N 3Z5, West Hamilton, ON, Canada aut Szatmari Peter Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Patterson Bldg., Chedoke site, McMaster Children's hospital 1200 Main Street, L8N 3Z5, West Hamilton, ON, Canada aut Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/7(2007-08-01), 1375-1380 0162-3257 37:7<1375 2007 37 10803 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0264-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0264-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Villiers Jessica Department of English, University of British Columbia, V8N 1Z4, Voncouver, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fine Jonathan Department of English, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ginsberg Gary School of Public Health and Ministry of Health, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vaccarella Liezanne Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Patterson Bldg., Chedoke site, McMaster Children's hospital 1200 Main Street, L8N 3Z5, West Hamilton, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Szatmari Peter Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Patterson Bldg., Chedoke site, McMaster Children's hospital 1200 Main Street, L8N 3Z5, West Hamilton, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/7(2007-08-01), 1375-1380 0162-3257 37:7<1375 2007 37 10803 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer