NCT06116552 More and Less Social Comprehension

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Brief Summary

The goal of this early Phase 1 clinical trial is to assess if the social content of a story impacts autistic children's listening comprehension of stories. The main questions this study aims to answer are: * Does removing social content from a story improve listening comprehension in autistic children? * Does listening comprehension of more social versus less social stories differentially predict performance on a standardized reading comprehension measure? Participants will listen to more social and less social stories while viewing accompanying pictures and answer comprehension questions about the stories and complete a standardized assessment of reading comprehension. In addition, participants complete measures of their nonverbal cognition, hearing status, autism severity, language abilities, and social communication abilities to help characterize individual differences in participants.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Has a community or educational autism diagnosis (based on parent report); * Is between the ages of 9;0 to 12;11 (years; months); * Uses verbal phrase-level spoken language (based on parent report). Exclusion Criteria: * Speaks more than one language (based on parent report); * Has a known chromosomal abnormality (e.g., Fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome; based on parent report); * Has an intellectual impairment or cognitive disability (IQ \< 70; based on parent report); * Has Cerebral palsy (based on parent report); * Uncorrected visual impairments (based on parent report); * Minimal spoken language or no phrase spoken language (based on parent report or clinical observation).

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