Table 3.
Examples of Expository Texts Written by Children with and without ASD
| 9-year-old Children |
| NT Child (Quality Score: 3): ALL ABOUT ME: I like to do math and I like to play sports, all sow I like to run alot, I like art to … |
| Child with ASD (Quality Score: 1): I like to play blocks. I make a tower. I make a big tall tower. I made a tall tower. I make a pizza. |
| 11-year-old Children |
| NT Child (Quality Rating: 9): My favorite sport is soccer because soccer is a very competetive sport and soccer is a very famous sport. I also like soccer because of the World Cup and I love to watch other teams play against eachother to try to score a goal. I also like soccer because I play soccer! Soccer is really fun when your in the action, it is fun to score a goal but how to you score a goal without passing? Well I love to pass it back and forth to my team mates. I love to assist goals and I like soccer because there are a lot of people on the field at once. I like that because I am able to weave through people on the field and pass the ball the my team mates. When I play the sport a get a good feeling of having a good day. I dont know why but it gives me a great feeling, those are the reasons why I like to watch and play soccer. |
| Child with ASD (Quality Rating: 10): I like Transformers. My favorite charaters from greatest to least is Starscream, Grimlock and Soundwave. Starscream has Null rays that can disruspt the flow of energy in any character permanitly. He can also transform into a fighter jet and in jet mode he can shoot cluster bombs wich do the same thing as Null rays but they are temporary and have an explosive force. Grimlock has an extra powerfull blaster that can destoy anyone or anything with onely a few shots he can also transform into a T-Rex. In T-Rex mode he can shoot a flamthrower that is inside his mouth. Soundwave can use a normal blaster and he can deploy 6 different minicons they are Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, Ratbat, Laserbeak and Buzzsaw he also has a shoulder canon. He transforms into a radio he can deploy minicons in both modes. |
Note. These examples were selected to show similarities in writing quality between children with and without ASD, as well as age related differences in writing. Texts are shown exactly as children typed them, including the grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation errors. Quality ratings ranged from 0 to 12, with higher scores reflecting better quality.