The 'borderlands' of autism are of particular interest to researchers and clinicians as we
learn more about pervasive disorders and how to manage them. One group of children who …

Background: Two studies were conducted to test claims that pragmatic language impairment
(PLI–previously referred to as semantic‐pragmatic disorder) is simply another term for …

Background Developmental disorders of language and communication present
considerable diagnostic challenges due to overlapping of symptomatology and uncertain …

This chapter reviews the studies that look at social and pragmatic impairments in children
with Specific language impairment (SLI), considering how frequent these are, and how far …

Background The diagnostic boundaries between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and
specific language impairment (SLI) are not clear‐cut. Evidence of the lack of distinct …

Despite its prominence, pragmatic characteristic associated with autism is under-explored
and thus was not well defined. The present study attempted to depict a relatively …

Three groups of children with communication disorders were examined using a series of
psycholinguistic markers to explore whether the tasks could identify children with …

Social language use (pragmatics) in parents of autistic individuals and controls was
compared. Autism parents displayed atypical pragmatic behaviours more often than …

The literature on children with language disorders that are characterized by semantic and
pragmatic impairments is reviewed and the conclusion is drawn that some of these …

While the primary language deficit in autism has been thought to be pragmatic, and in
specific language impairment (SLI) structural, recent research suggests phenomenological …