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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents diverse language challenges, particularly in pragmatic (social) communication.
  • Narrative competence is a key area of study in autism research, with increasing interest in computational analysis.
  • Previous research often focused on spoken narratives, with limited exploration of written forms in standardized assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the utility of written narratives from a national exam for distinguishing autistic students.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of deep neural network models in analyzing narrative competence in autism.
  • To explore the potential of using standardized written data for future large-scale epidemiological studies on autism.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 363 written essays from eighth-grade students (193 autistic, 168 non-autistic) collected during a national examination.
  • Application and testing of several deep neural network models to classify essays based on authorship (autistic vs. non-autistic).
  • Evaluation of model performance using sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy metrics.

Main Results:

  • Deep neural models demonstrated high performance in distinguishing between essays written by autistic and non-autistic students.
  • Several models achieved promising results, with coefficients for sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy exceeding 0.85.
  • The findings indicate that written narratives contain discernible markers of autism.

Conclusions:

  • Written narratives from standardized assessments can be effectively analyzed using computational methods to identify characteristics associated with autism.
  • The study demonstrates the potential of leveraging national exam data for large-scale, cost-effective autism research and screening.
  • Further research in this area could significantly advance epidemiological studies and early identification of autism spectrum disorder.