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  • Communication deficits are a hallmark of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
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  • Understanding real-time communication challenges in ASD is crucial.

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  • To investigate the cause of communication deficits in autistic adults during live social interactions.
  • To compare the communicative abilities of autistic and neurotypical adults in a dynamic, non-verbal context.
  • To identify how referencing communicative history impacts interactional alignment.

Main Methods:

  • Adults with and without ASD engaged in live, non-verbal dyadic interactions.
  • Participants' ability to generate, modify, and align communicative behaviors was assessed.
  • The role of referencing recent communicative history in meaning alignment was analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Autistic adults matched neurotypical individuals in generating and modifying intelligible behaviors.
  • A significant deficit was observed in aligning communicative meaning when referencing recent interaction history.
  • This difficulty in historical reference explains challenges in ambiguous, everyday social contexts.

Conclusions:

  • Social interaction is a dynamic process of communicative alignment, not just individual ability.
  • Misalignment due to difficulties referencing communicative history is a key factor in ASD communication deficits.
  • This finding highlights the importance of interactional dynamics in understanding and addressing communication challenges in autism spectrum disorder.