Melissa L Allen
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Recent Articles
1.
Wainwright B, Allen M, Cain K
Autism Dev Lang Impair
. 2022 Nov;
5:2396941520931728.
PMID: 36381550
Background And Aims: Children with autism spectrum condition often have specific difficulties understanding that pictorial symbols refer to real-world objects in the environment. We investigated the influence of labelling on...
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Wainwright B, Allen M, Cain K
Autism Dev Lang Impair
. 2022 Nov;
5:2396941520917943.
PMID: 36381546
Background And Aims: Children with autism spectrum condition often have specific difficulties with narrative comprehension, a skill which has a strong association with both concurrent and longitudinal reading comprehension. A...
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Vivaldi R, Allen M
J Exp Child Psychol
. 2021 Jun;
210:105208.
PMID: 34157496
Pictures can represent more than one entity, and they can also represent literal or nonliteral concepts associated with a referent. In two studies, we examined whether 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adults...
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Allen M, Butler H
Br J Dev Psychol
. 2020 Mar;
38(3):345-362.
PMID: 32212404
Understanding figurative language develops during middle childhood. Drawing can facilitate recall and may aid other aspects of linguistic expression. We examined whether children provide more symbolic interpretations of figurative statements...
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Wainwright B, Allen M, Cain K
J Autism Dev Disord
. 2020 Feb;
50(8):2941-2956.
PMID: 32036494
We investigated symbolic understanding, word-picture-referent mapping, and engagement in children with autism spectrum condition (ASC) and ability-matched typically developing children. Participants viewed coloured pictorial symbols of a novel object (given...
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Field C, Lewis C, Allen M
Res Dev Disabil
. 2019 Jun;
91:103425.
PMID: 31252178
Background: There is conflicting evidence regarding whether children with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) and intellectual disabilities (ID) follow social pragmatic cues such as a speaker's eye gaze or pointing towards...
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Hartley C, Trainer A, Allen M
Autism
. 2017 Nov;
23(1):187-198.
PMID: 29132226
Previous studies report that minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder show impaired picture comprehension when matched to typically developing controls on language comprehension. Here, we compare picture comprehension and...
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Allen M, Hartley C, Cain K
Front Psychol
. 2016 Sep;
7:1305.
PMID: 27625621
The advent of electronic tablets, such as Apple's iPad, has opened up the field of learning via technology, and the use of electronic applications ("apps") on these devices continues to...
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Field C, Allen M, Lewis C
J Autism Dev Disord
. 2015 Dec;
46(4):1210-9.
PMID: 26667148
We investigate the function bias--generalising words to objects with the same function--in typically developing (TD) children, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and children with other developmental disorders. Across four...
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Allen M, Nurmsoo E, Freeman N
Cognition
. 2015 Nov;
147:21-8.
PMID: 26605962
Drawings can be ambiguous and represent more than one entity. In three experiments, we examine whether young children show representational flexibility by allowing one picture to be called by a...