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 …

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder which afflicts an estimated 0.7% of adults world wide. It
affects many areas of mental function, often evident from incoherent speech. Diagnosing …

The aim of the current study was two-fold. First, it evaluated the influence of bilingualism on
syntactic abilities and verbal memory of children with High Functioning Autism (HFA) …

This study compared pronoun use in individuals with autism to their typically developing
peers via meta-analysis and systematic review of 20 selected articles to examine differences …

While there is ample evidence that monolingual children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASD) face difficulties with narrative story-telling and executive functions (EF), there is …

The current study evaluated the separate and combined effects of bilingualism and Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on informativeness and definiteness marking of referential …

The current study investigated the production of third-person subject and object pronouns in
monolingual and bilingual children with High Functioning Autism (HFA) and typical …

Background & Aims Discourse markers, such as well or like, serve a variety of functions to
support conversational reciprocity: filling pauses, aiding word-finding, and modulating turn …

Today, more than half of the world's children are raised multilingual, which poses diagnostic
and interventional dilemmas to providers for children with special needs. This chapter …

Background and aims Pragmatic language is a key difficulty in autism spectrum disorder.
One such pragmatic skill is verbal reference, which allows the current entity of shared …