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Peer reviewedEales, Martin J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1993
Analysis of conversations of 15 adults with autism and 17 with developmental receptive language disorders in childhood indicated that the autistic adults showed greater pragmatic impairment because of their greater difficulty in forming context-relevant communicative intentions. Pragmatic impairments arising from failures in translating intentions…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Children, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedCraig, Holly K.; Evans, Julia L. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
Selected discourse behaviors of 10 elementary school children with specific language impairment (SLI) presenting expressive or combined expressive-receptive deficits were compared to each other and to two groups of controls. The two SLI subgroups varied from each other on specific measures of turn taking and cohesion. Research implications are…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Expressive Language
