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Relations Between Bilingualism and Autistic-Like Traits in a General Population Sample of Primary School Children.

Some evidence suggests that bilingualism improves communication and cognitive skills which are often impaired in autism. However, diagnosing autism in bilinguals may suffer a cultural bias, which can affect the investigation of bilingualism and autism. Therefore, the current study investigates relat...

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Published in:Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 49; no. 6; pp. 2509 - 2524
Main Authors: Kašćelan, Draško, Katsos, Napoleon, Gibson, Jenny L.
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Jun2019
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          Cultural Bias
          Multilingualism Evaluation
          Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis
          Students, Elementary Psychosocial Factors
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      ab: Some evidence suggests that bilingualism improves communication and cognitive skills which are often impaired in autism. However, diagnosing autism in bilinguals may suffer a cultural bias, which can affect the investigation of bilingualism and autism. Therefore, the current study investigates relations between autistic-like traits (ALTs) and bilingualism in a general population sample of 394 children (M age = 8;3). Within the high-scoring group on the ALT measure, monolinguals had significantly higher ALT scores than bilinguals. There were no differences between monolinguals and bilinguals in the low-scoring group. Across the whole sample, age and structural language skills accounted for 35% variance in ALTs, while bilingualism had no effect on ALTs. Furthermore, structural language skills explained more variance in ALTs among bilinguals than among monolinguals.
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