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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting social communication and interaction.
  • Expository writing is a complex skill involving organization, grammar, and content generation.
  • Executive Functioning (EF) plays a crucial role in cognitive processes underlying writing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the expository writing abilities of school-age children with ASD and neurotypical (NT) children.
  • To investigate the relationship between executive functioning (EF) and writing skills in both children with ASD and NT children.

Main Methods:

  • Detailed linguistic analysis of written texts.
  • Assessment of expository writing samples from children with ASD and NT controls.
  • Exploration of correlations between executive functioning measures and writing performance.

Main Results:

  • Children with ASD wrote shorter texts with more grammatical errors than NT peers.
  • No significant differences were found in lexical diversity, writing conventions, or overall quality between groups.
  • Higher executive functioning was associated with improved writing outcomes in both ASD and NT children.

Conclusions:

  • Children with ASD face specific challenges in expository text production, particularly in length and grammar.
  • Despite some differences, core writing quality and complexity were comparable between groups.
  • Executive functioning is a key factor supporting writing development across neurodevelopmental profiles.