Research on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has rapidly expanded in recent years,
yielding important developments in both theory and practice. While we have gained …

New technologies designed to improve the communication of autistic children can also help
to promote interaction processes and cognitive and social development. The aim of this …

Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have reading profiles characterized by
higher decoding skills and lower reading comprehension. This study assessed whether this …

This research addresses the challenges of assessing receptive language abilities in
minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder by comparing several adapted …

Relatively little is known about trajectories of autism severity using calibrated severity scores
(CSS) from the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, but characterizing these …

Research on language development has increasingly been influenced by advances in
genomic medicine and other fields providing insight into the varied causes of intellectual …

Young typically developing (TD) children have been observed to utilize word learning
strategies such as the noun bias and shape bias; these improve their efficiency in acquiring …

Purpose The current study compared the spontaneous expressive language of children with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) across multiple language sampling contexts: the Autism …

Purpose Eye-gaze methods have the potential to advance the study of neurodevelopmental
disorders. Despite their increasing use, challenges arise in using these methods with …

Purpose There is considerable controversy regarding whether to use telegraphic or
grammatical input when speaking to young children with language delays, including …