مستويات اللغة التعبيريّة لدى أطفال التوحّد وأطفال متلازمة داون -دراسة مقارنة-

Abstract

The current research aimed to explore the differences between Autistic children and children with Down Syndrome in expressive language levels(phonology, morpho-syntax, semantics, pragmatics),and its relationshipto the age variable, as the total sample consisted of 20 boys and girls, of which 10children of autistic children, and 10 children of  Down Syndrome , ranged between (7 to 13 years).The researcher used the descriptive approach  in order to verify the research hypotheses.

The results showed that there were low performance among members of the autistic children sample in most levels of the expressive Language (morpho-syntax, semantics, pragmatics) as measured by the expressive language disorder scale), while the performance of individuals in the Down syndrome sample was low on the phonological level compared to the level of performance of individuals with autism.

According to the age variable, there were no differences between the members of the younger age group and members of the older age group of the autistic children sample in all expressive language levels while there were differences between members of the Down syndrome children group  on the expressive language disorder scale depending on the age variable where the younger age group showed a lower level of performance compared to the older age group at all levels of expressive language.