It is currently estimated that about 30% of children with autism spectrum disorder remain
minimally verbal, even after receiving years of interventions and a range of educational …

Background Lack of agreement about criteria and terminology for children's language
problems affects access to services as well as hindering research and practice. We report the …

The history of autism has included waxing and waning of interest in language and
communication, from interpreting language abnormalities as secondary to deficits in social-emotional …

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 …

With increased public awareness of the early signs and recent American Academy of
Pediatrics recommendations that all 18- and 24-month-olds be screened for autism spectrum …

… A large sample of 89 children with autism (9 girls and 80 boys), between the ages of 4 and
14, participated in this study (Kjelgaard & Tager-Flusberg 2001). They were selected on the …

In this paper we argue that there are two distinct components of a theory of mind: a social-cognitive
and a social-perceptual component. Evidence for this proposal is presented from …

Two decades ago, the theory-of-mind hypothesis of autism was introduced by Baron-Cohen
and his colleagues; this theory provided a unified cognitive explanation for the key social …

… preschoolers as well as oral deaf children who have normal intellectual and social
abilities but limited language (de Villiers & de Villiers, in press; see also this volume; Tager-Flusberg, …

The Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia was modified for use in
children and adolescents with autism by developing additional screening questions and coding …