Recently the Lancet published a Commission on the future of care and clinical research of
autism, which included a side panel arguing for the adoption of “profound autism”, a term in …

Purpose: Autistic youth who are minimally or low verbal are underrepresented in research
leaving little to no evidence base for supporting them and their families. To date, few studies …

Abstract Purpose of Review Modern communication requires written expression for work,
academic, and personal purposes. Using meta-analysis, this study compares the written …

Asperger's syndrome is part of the large group of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Children with
Asperger's syndrome suffer from communication difficulties, which leads to disabilities …

Background Assessing the impact of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on communication skill
development in minimally verbal children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (MV-ASD) is …

While previous work has identified the early predictors of language skills in infants at
elevated familial risk (ER) and low familial risk (LR) for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), no …

Prior work examined how minimally verbal (MV) children with autism used their gestural
communication during social interactions. However, interactions are exchanges between …

Purpose: The current study examined the predictive role of gestures and gesture–speech
combinations on later spoken language outcomes in minimally verbal (MV) autistic children …

Background There are many children with neurodisability who are unable to rely on speech
to communicate and so use a range of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) …

Purpose: Gesture delay in autistic infants and toddlers has been widely reported. The
developmental trajectory of gesture production during early childhood is understudied. Thus …