The Relationship between Comprehension of Figurative Language by Japanese Children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders and College Freshmen’s Assessment of Its Conventionality of Usage

Table 1

Summary of the studies by Adachi et al. [13], Yata and Oi [14], Taguchi et al. [15], and Oi and Tanaka [16].

	Number of children	ToM 1st	ToM 2nd	Tasks	Results
Adachi et al. [13]	66 AS children	15 failed	—	5 ironic statements; 5 metaphors	Difference between AS and ADHD in comprehension of irony
	20 HFASD children	7 failed	—
	37 ADHD children	4 failed	—
Yata and Oi [14]	20 HFA children; 20 TD children	3 failed; 1 failed	9 failed; 8 failed	5 sarcastic statements; 5 indirect reproaches; 5 indirect requests	No intergroup difference in comprehension of sarcasm, indirect reproaches, or indirect requests
Taguchi et al. [15]	17 HFASD children; 15 TD children	—; —	—; —	5 sarcastic statements; 5 indirect reproaches; 5 indirect requests	No intergroup difference in comprehension of sarcasm, indirect reproaches, or indirect requests
Oi and Tanaka [16]	53 HFASD children	—	—	10 metaphors	Intergroup difference in comprehension of 1 metaphor
	50 TD children	—	—