"Early ‘unexpected bilingualism’ (UB) is highly prevalent among autistic children, even those who are minimally verbal" acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... note: UB is defined as "the use of at least one language not spoken in the child's social environment to name letters and/or numbers"

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💡Early manifestations of unexpected bilingualism in minimally verbal autism💡
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I am happy to share our latest open access publication entitled: What do autistic children who are interested in letters and numbers do with them? A qualitative study. 🔠 🔢
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Interest in letters & numbers in young autistic children (age 2-6 years), qualitative study, free www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "Many parents did not know how their child had learnt to read and said that the interest was fully self-directed and the skills self-taught, at least at first"

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The odds of having a greater interest in letters was 2.78 times higher for autistic children than for non-autistic children of the same age, even though 76% of autistic children were minimally- or non-verbal.

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