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Norbury, Courtenay Frazier; Gemmell, Tracey; Paul, Rhea – Journal of Child Language, 2014
We aimed to disentangle contributions of socio-pragmatic and structural language deficits to narrative competence by comparing the narratives of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n=25), non-autistic children with language impairments (LI; n=23), and children with typical development (TD; n=27). Groups were matched for age (6½ to 15…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Story Telling, Children, Autism
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Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Bennetto, Loisa – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Language in autism has been the subject of intense interest, because communication deficits are central to the disorder, and because autism serves as an arena for testing theories of language acquisition. High-functioning older children with autism are often considered to have intact grammatical abilities, despite pragmatic impairments. Given the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age Differences, Autism, Language Skills