Private Speech and Executive Functioning among High-Functioning Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders

By A. Winsler, B. Abar, M. Feder, Christian D. Schunn, David Alarcón Rubio. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Inner speech is used to mediate short-term memory, but not planning, among intellectually high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder (2012, background): “Contrary to their expectations, Winsler et al. (2007) found children with ASD were as likely as typically developing comparison children to employ private speech during these tasks.”
Brief Report: Predicting Inner Speech Use Amongst Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): The Roles of Verbal Ability and Cognitive Profile (2010, background): “Across studies, performance on experimental measures of verbal mediation has been varied, regardless of whether participants had Asperger’s syndrome (Wallace et al. 2009; Winsler et al. 2007 ), high-functioning autism (Holland and Low 2009; Lidstone et al. 2009; Whitehouse et al. 2006), mixedabilit”
Verbal mediation of cognition in children with specific language impairment (2012, background): “Here, the hypothesis is that the social and communication impairments found in ASDs disrupt the development of self-directed speech.”
Brief Report: Further Evidence for a Link Between Inner Speech Limitations and Executive Function in High-Functioning Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2014, background): “It is not clear how higher levels of verbal ability contribute to superior card-sorting performance in ASD children when, based on the results of our other analyses, these children appear to make limited use of inner speech (see also Winsler et al. 2007).”
Brief Report: Further Evidence for Inner Speech Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders (2009, unknown): “The explicit use of overt self-talk facilitated executive problem solving in children with autism and TD children alike (Winsler et al. 2007).”
Brief Report: Inner Speech Impairment in Children with Autism is Associated with Greater Nonverbal than Verbal Skills (2009, unknown): “Another study looked at the overt speech of CWA while performing two executive tasks (the ‘building sticks’ task and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test), and found that they were just as likely as typically developing controls to talk to themselves in task-relevant ways ( Winsler et al. 2007 ).”