Lexical Semantic Knowledge of Children with ASD—a Review Study

Abstract Studies on the lexical semantic abilities of children with autism have yielded contradicting results. The aim current review was to explore studies that specifically focused ASD and try find an explanation for these contradictions. In 32 reviewed, no single factor found affect skills, although broader linguistic impairment generally, but not universally, also showed impaired skills. need future young participants, differing intellectual functioning, longitudinal studies, assessing a wide range language domains are discussed.