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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Open Access 29-05-2024 | Original Article

Should Parents Only Use One Language with Their Autistic Children? The Relations Between Multilingualism, Children‘s Social Skills, and Parent-Child Communication

Auteurs: Maïte Franco, Andreia P. Costa

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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Abstract

Purpose

Parents of autistic children are often advised to use only one language to simplify their child’s language acquisition. Often this recommendation orients towards the geographically predominant language, which may cause difficulties especially for minority-language families. On the other hand, scientific evidence suggests that multilingualism does not hinder language acquisition and that communicating in exclusively foreign languages may even impede social interaction. Therefore, we investigated how parent language use is linked to the social skills of 68 autistic children and to their parents’ ability to feel comfortable, authentic, and free to express themselves.

Methods

Data was collected online, using parent-report questionnaires from parents of 25 different nationalities in the European context, assessing children’s language, autistic traits (AQ-C), social skills (SRS-2), and parent-child communication.

Results

Language use was not found to significantly relate to social skills in children. However, parents using their mother tongue, either only their mother tongue or in combination with other languages, reported feeling significantly more comfortable and more authentic than parents using exclusively foreign languages, either one or many. There were no significant differences between monolingual and multilingual families regarding parents’ feelings in regard to their language use.

Conclusions

Our findings may encourage specialists to consider multilingualism more often and consult with parents whether monolingualism is worth risking the negative outcomes we have found. Especially, since advising parents to raise their child multilingually may facilitate access to therapeutic treatment, childcare, and social interaction in multilingual societies and families and subsequently improve support and orientation for stakeholders.
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This article uses the terminologies autism, autistic, and on the spectrum in acknowledgement to the findings of empirical studies on stakeholders’ perspectives and preferences regarding the terminology, used to communicate about autism (Buijsman et al., 2023; Bury et al., 2023; Kenny et al., 2016; Lei at al., 2021).
 
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It is of course important to note, that there is a vast interplay of factors to be considered in the parents’ interaction with their autistic children (e.g., reduced joined attention [Adamson et al., 2012], autistic traits and difficulties in communication [Beurkens et al., 2013], parenting style [Riany et al., 2017], …) and that, in general, emotion-related socialization is influenced not only by parents’ personality and cultural influences, but also by their children’s characteristics (Eisenberg et al., 1998).
 
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In the additional analyses, the four groups have been combined in pairs and or different group combinations. Group comparison analyses remained insignificant in all combinations for all analyzed demographic and descriptive variables (child gender, age, presence of intellectual developmental delay, autistic traits, and diagnoses, as well as parent gender, age, schooling level, economic resources).
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Should Parents Only Use One Language with Their Autistic Children? The Relations Between Multilingualism, Children‘s Social Skills, and Parent-Child Communication
Auteurs
Maïte Franco
Andreia P. Costa
Publicatiedatum
29-05-2024
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06347-w