Foudon autism corpus

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,
     I am happy to announce the addition to CHILDES of a corpus from  
Nadège Foudon's Ph.D. study of 8 autistic French-speaking children.

-- Brian MacWhinney

Here is a brief description of this interesting corpus:
Participants were 8 children with autism (3 girls, 6 boys) between 3;9  
and 9;2 at the beginning of the study. Data from a ninth child were  
omitted, because that child was nonverbal.  All children were  
recruited at the Isatis department of the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu hospital  
(Lyon, France) where they were initially diagnosed with DSM-IV (1994)  
Autistic Disorder. They had a mean Child Autism Rating Scale Score  
(CARS) of 38.64 (standard deviation = 12; range = 35-47) and  
developmental age between 12-16 months and 28-32 months at the  
beginning of the study (January 2007). We have divided children in  
three groups: first words, first combinations and first phrases, as  
evaluated relative to mean length of utterance (MLU), i.e.,  
respectively 1, 2 and superior to 2 (Victor, Eliott, Lyne = 1;  
Matthieu, Charlotte, Félix = 2; Maeva, Ahmed, Grégory > 2).

Children have been (and will continue to be) recorded approximately  
every three months for 3 years at the Isatis and Tarentelle medical  
daycare centers. Children are recorded in three types of situations  
(work, lunch-time and play-time). We have also conducted Savage- 
Rumbaugh tests and false belief tests at the end of the first year.

Publications making use of these data should cite the following article:

Foudon, Nadege, Reboul, Anne, & Manificat, Sabine (2007). Language  
acquisition in autistic children: A longitudinal study.  CamLing2007:  
University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research.
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