Language in autism: domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions

J Schaeffer, M Abd El-Raziq, E Castroviejo… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - Springer
This article reviews the current knowledge state on pragmatic and structural language
abilities in autism and their potential relation to extralinguistic abilities and autistic traits. The …

Challenges surrounding the diagnosis of autism in children

Y Hus, O Segal - Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This comprehensive thematic review aims to highlight and familiarize readers with the
challenges and pitfalls encountered in differential diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders …

Developmental language disorder and autism: commonalities and differences on language

N Georgiou, G Spanoudis - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Language and communication deficits characterize both autism spectrum disorder and
developmental language disorder, and the possibility of there being a common profile of …

Motor speech impairment predicts expressive language in minimally verbal, but not low verbal, individuals with autism spectrum disorder

K Chenausky, A Brignell, A Morgan… - Autism & …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and aims Developmental motor speech impairment has been suspected, but
rarely systematically examined, in low-and minimally verbal individuals with autism …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of knowledge about childhood autism spectrum disorder among healthcare workers in Makkah-Saudi Arabia

AA Hayat, AH Meny, N Salahuddin… - Pakistan journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: To measure the knowledge of healthcare professionals about increasingly
prevalent Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) along with perceptions around its management …

Studies assessing domains pertaining to structural language in autism vary in reporting practices and approaches to assessment: A systematic review

T Girolamo, L Shen, A Monroe Gulick, ML Rice… - …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Language in autism is heterogeneous, with a significant proportion of individuals having
structural language difficulties and inclusion of language impairment as a specifier under …

Delineating the autistic phenotype in children with neurofibromatosis type 1

AK Chisholm, KM Haebich, NA Pride, KS Walsh… - Molecular Autism, 2022 - Springer
Background Existing research has demonstrated elevated autistic behaviours in children
with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), but the autistic phenotype and its relationship to other …

Parent-reported assessment scores reflect the ASD severity level in 2-to 7-year-old children

P Jagadeesan, A Kabbani, A Vyshedskiy - Children, 2022 - mdpi.com
We investigated the relationship between parent-reported assessments and autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) severity level. Parents evaluated 9573 children with ASD on five …

Caregiver sensitivity predicts infant language use, and infant language complexity predicts caregiver language complexity, in the context of possible emerging autism

J Smith, L Chetcuti, L Kennedy, KJ Varcin… - Autism …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While theory supports bidirectional effects between caregiver sensitivity and language use,
and infant language acquisition—both caregiver‐to‐infant and also infant‐to‐caregiver …

Why study bilingualism in autistic people?

R Davis, SC Hampton, S Fletcher-Watson - Autism, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
(Goetz, 2003; Kovács, 2009; Rubio-Fernández & Glucksberg, 2012). The mechanism for this
may relate to the need for bilingual children to map their language output to the …