NIH R01 · 2025
Ready to CONNECT: Conversation and Language in Autistic Teens
Conversations are a critical medium for success in daily life, but predictors and measures of conversational success are poorly understood. The overarching goal of this proposal is to identify networks of naturalistic and standardized psycholinguistic features that lead to successful conversations. Standardized language assessments often do not capture important linguistic processes in real-world conversations, such as pronominal reference, back-channeling, turn-taking, or phonological, lexical, or syntactic alignment. The double empathy theory further posits that autistic conversational difficulties reflect failures of mutual understanding, rather than autistic deficits, indicating that…
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