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Fast-mapping in young children with autism spectrum disorders

Andrea McDuffie

University of Wisconsin

Paul Yoder

Vanderbilt University

Wendy Stone

Vanderbilt Children's Hospital

A longitudinal correlational design was used to examine whether fast-mapping mediates the relationship between attention-following and vocabulary size in a group of 29 young children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Attention-following was measured at the initial visit. Fast-mapping as well as comprehension and production of noun vocabulary were measured six months later. Attention-following had a significant predictive association with fast-mapping and with both vocabulary outcomes. Fast-mapping had a significant concurrent association with vocabulary and met all the criteria for mediating the association between attention-following and the number of nouns children understood and said at the follow-up. These findings support the value of targeting attention-following to increase word learning for children with ASD.

Key Words: Attention-following • comprehension • language development • vocabulary acquisition • word learning

First Language, Vol. 26, No. 4, 421-438 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0142723706067438
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