Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 3 · Licensed source edition
How do parents scaffold their autistic children’s bilingual language interactions in everyday settings?
Originally published 2025-07-27 · Autism
SAGE Publications · DOI 10.1177/13623613251355259 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
When does changing languages help my child participate on their own terms?
This article examines parental scaffolding when autistic children use two languages. It gives readers a concrete setting in which to distinguish adult guidance from opportunities for a child to initiate or persist.
Who was studied?
Five Mexican-heritage families with autistic children, observed across 108 videos.
Age / stage: Childhood
Read with three questions
- What does the article establish about parental scaffolding when autistic children use two languages?
- Which behaviours were directly recorded, and which interpretations required an inference?
- How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is five Mexican-heritage families with autistic children, observed across 108 videos.
Keep the limits in view
The recordings came from five families. A strategy observed during their routines does not imply that all multilingual autistic children need the same support.
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Shana R Cohen; Alison Wishard Guerra; María José Aragón; Angeline Estrada; Eunsu Lee (2025). How do parents scaffold their autistic children’s bilingual language interactions in everyday settings? Autism. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613251355259
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