Abstract
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to struggle with reading comprehension, often resulting in difficulties with inference generation. While most of the previous research has focused on the product of comprehension, we report a preliminary validation of an experimental reading task in English to measure, by means of eye-movements, the time course of generating consistent and inconsistent inferences during reading. The task was tested with a group of 12 students with ASD (age range: 10–15) who showed accuracy differences between inference and control conditions. Participants spent longer reading in the inconsistent than control condition regarding go past times and second pass times and made more regressions into the target and post-target regions, but these differences were not significant.
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We would like to thank teachers for their help during the recruitment process. We would also like to thank participants and parents who took part in the study. The first author acknowledges funding from the Generalitat Valenciana (Spain) through the program “BEST_2019” (BEST/2019/193).
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Fajardo, I., Joseph, H. Brief report: Autistic students read between lines. J Autism Dev Disord 54, 2055–2059 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05648-2
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