Brief Report: “Um” Fillers Distinguish Children With and Without ASD

Karla K. McGregor, Rex R. Hadden

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Abstract

Two laboratories have reported that children with ASD are less likely than their typical peers to fill pauses with um but their use of uh is unaffected (Irvine et al., J Autism Dev Disord 46(3):1061–1070, 2016; Gorman et al., Autism Res 9(8):854–865, 2016). In this brief report, we replicated this finding by comparing the discourse of 7-to-15-year-olds with ASD (N = 31) to that of their typically developing same-age peers (N = 32). The robustness of this easily documented difference in discourse suggests a potentially useful clinical marker of ASD.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1816-1821
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume50
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1 2020

Keywords

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Discourse
  • Disfluency
  • Fillers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

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