Implicit Measures of Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge in Individuals With Level 3 Autism

EDITORS NOTE
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IMPLICIT MEASURES OF RECEPTIVE COMMUNICATION

CONCLUSIONS
We demonstrated that EMs, PD, and ERPs can provide implicit estimates of receptive vocabulary knowledge in individuals with Level 3 autism, although the participants differed in their individual sensitivity to specific measures, and some measures proved more able than others in discriminating ‘known’ and ‘unknown’ vocabulary between participants. This variability highlights the importance of tailoring these assessments to each individual. Despite the inevitable heterogeneity of our limited number of participants, this work is one of the few studies to use sophisticated neuropsychological methodologies, such as EEG and eye tracking, to examine language processing in individuals with Level 3 autism, thereby offering a rare insight into this population.