Language and Repetition Performance in Autism Spectrum Disorder Versus Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence From Turkish-Speaking Children

This study compared language and repetition abilities in 90 Turkish-speaking children (30 autistic, 30 with developmental language disorder, 30 typically developing) using standardized assessments. Typically developing children scored significantly higher across all measures, while autistic children showed lower morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic performance than children with DLD on most tests, though differences were small for some measures.