BILINGUALISM AND AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER:CONSIDERATIONS FROM A CASE STUDY

Smith, Giuditta, Sorace, Antonella and Garraffa, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1767-424X (2025) BILINGUALISM AND AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER:CONSIDERATIONS FROM A CASE STUDY. Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata, 25 (2). pp. 33-45. ISSN 1592-1328

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Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and interaction, and restricted and stereotyped interests. The extent of the communication difficulties and influencing factors in the disorder is debated. In the current study, a case study methodology was adopted to allow for an in-depth analysis of individual language profiles of two adolescents with ASD (one monolingual and one bilingual), and one monolingual adolescent with DLD. Participants completed a series of tasks assessing Italian grammatical abilities as well as a specific investigation of the use of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person pronouns. The findings reveal that multilingualism is not a relevant factor in the language disorder in ASD, as the participants with ASD and DLD behaved differently regardless of their language condition: both participants with ASD demonstrated high accuracy on sentence and nonword repetition tasks, in contrast with the participant with DLD. Moreover, both participants with ASD showed high proficiency in the use of pronouns, contrary to the participant with DLD, except for the production of pronouns when the task required a perspective shift from 2nd to 1st person.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Publisher Copyright: © 2025 Fabrizio Serra Editore Srl. All rights reserved.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	asd,bilingualism,clitics,dld,pragmatic disorder,syntactic disorder,social psychology,developmental and educational psychology,linguistics and language ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3207
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2026 09:25
Last Modified:	22 Sep 2026 09:25
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/104609
DOI:	10.19272/202507702003

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