Language deficits occur in a variety of developmental disorders including autism spectrum
disorders, Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, specific language impairment, and Williams …

One of the most active areas of current research in the field of developmental disorders is
autism. Since the NIH State of the Science conference, held in 1995 (Bristol et al.[1996] J …

Autism involves primary impairments in both language and communication, yet in recent
years the main focus of research has been on the communicative deficits that define the …

Failure to develop normal language comprehension is an early warning sign of autism, but
the neural mechanisms underlying this signature deficit are unknown. This is because of an …

Background: Psychosocial treatments are the mainstay of management of autism in the UK
but there is a notable lack of a systematic evidence base for their effectiveness. Randomised …

Preschool‐aged, autistic children were compared with both developmentally delayed
children of similar non‐verbal mental age and normally developing children of similar verbal …

The first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the
current state of linguistic pragmatics. Cummings argues that no study of pragmatics can …

This study identifies key mechanisms through which a young child operates with external
knowledge in her immediate social context. Central to this is the child's capacity to draw on …

This study investigated the effects of written text and pictorial cuing with supplemental video
feedback on the social communication of 5 students with autism and social deficits. Two …

While it is widely recognized that autism undercuts conversational ability, there has been
little systematic examination of the involvement of children with autism in informal …