Abstract

Purpose
Conversational latency entails the temporal feature of turn-taking, which is understudied in autistic children. The current study investigated the influences of child-based and parental factors on conversational latency in autistic children with heterogeneous spoken language abilities.
Method
Participants were 46 autistic children aged 4–7 years. We remotely collected 15-min naturalistic language samples in the context of parent–child interactions to characterize both child and parent conversational latency. Conversational latency was operationally defined as the time it took for one individual to respond to their conversational partner using spoken language. Naturalistic language samples were transcribed following the Systematic Analysis for Language Transcripts convention to characterize autistic children's spoken language and parental spoken language input. Autistic children's spoken language was …

Metadata

publication

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-13, 2025

year

2025

publication date

2025/4/3

authors

Lue Shen, Anfeng Xu, Lindsay K Butler, Karen Chenausky, Marc Maffei, Shrikanth Narayanan, Helen Tager-Flusberg

link

https://pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00053

journal

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

pages

1-13

publisher

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association