Communication in Autism.

Communication in Autism -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- An introduction to communication in autism -- References -- Prelinguistic communication -- Joint Attention -- Communication Breakdowns -- Naturalistic Observations -- Interview Protocols -- Communication Interventions and PCAs -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Structured Observations -- Facilitating emergent verbal repertoires in individuals with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disorders -- Derived relational responding, stimulus equivalence, and the basic experiment -- Facilitating emergent verbal repertoires: Derived manding -- Further research on derived manding -- Derived comparative relations and derived manding -- Facilitating emergent verbal repertoires: Derived intraverbals -- Facilitating emergent verbal repertoires: Derived textual behaviour -- Facilitating emergent verbal repertoires: Derived tacting -- Future research challenges -- Conclusion -- References -- Echolalia and language developmen in children with autism -- Introduction -- Why Echolalia? -- Types of Echolalia -- Exact Echolalia -- Mitigated Echolalia -- Pronoun reversal -- The current study -- Method -- Participants -- Procedures -- Language Testing -- Language Sample -- Design and Statistical Considerations -- Reliability -- Results -- Discussion -- Echolalia and Imitation of speech -- Mitigated Echolalia -- Implications for assessment and management -- Limitations of the study -- Further research -- Conclusion -- References -- Do autism spectrum disorders and specific language impairment have a shared aetiology? -- Introduction -- Linguistic and cognitive links between ASD and SLI -- Phonology -- Morphosyntax -- Semantics -- Pragmatic language -- SLI Markers in ASD -- ASD Markers in SLI -- Summary.

Neurobiological links between ASD and Specific Language Impairment -- Structural neuroimaging studies -- Functional Neuroimaging Studies -- Summary -- Genetic Links between ASD and Specific Language Impairment -- Twin studies -- Family Studies -- Molecular genetic studies -- Summary -- General Conclusions and Directions for Future Research -- Final remarks -- References -- Prosody and autism -- What is prosody? -- Why is prosody important? -- Previous studies of prosodic processing in ASD -- Formal assessment of prosody -- The McCann and Peppe review -- Acoustic analyses of expressive prosody -- Complex prosody -- The relationship between prosody and other linguistic skills -- Summary -- Possible mechanisms underpinning prosodic difficulties in ASD -- Theory of Mind deficits -- Motor speech impairments -- Atypical audio-vocal regulation -- Deficient encoding of pitch -- Summary -- Directions for future research -- A better understanding of typical prosodic development -- An evidence-base for the treatment of prosodic impairment -- Conclusion -- References -- Reading for sound and reading for meaning in autism -- Participants -- The Neale Analysis of Reading Ability -- Experiment 1: Words/Nonwords -- Experiment 2: Abstract / Concrete words -- Experiment 3: Stroop interference -- Experiment 4: Final 's' -- Experiment 5: Homographs -- Experiment 6: Gap test -- Experiment 7: Restricted choice -- Discussion -- References -- Language and literacy subtypes in young children with a high functioning autism spectrum disorder -- Structural language skills in individuals with HFASD -- Reading skills of individuals with a HFASD -- Predictors of reading -- Literacy predictors in HFASD -- Reading comprehension -- The current study -- Method -- Participants -- Materials -- Procedure -- Analysis -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References.

The use of narrative in studying communication in Autism Spectrum Disorders -- What is narrative? -- Scope and methodology of the review -- Literature review of elicited narrative studies -- Methodological issues -- Characteristics of ASD groups -- Comparison group -- Task design differences -- Application of analytical measures -- Emerging themes -- Length and complexity of narratives -- Coherence and cohesion of narratives -- Mental state language -- Alternative methodologies -- Imaginative narratives -- Personal experience narratives and autobiographical memory. -- Qualitative ethnographic research on naturalistic narratives -- Written narratives -- Functional neuroimaging -- Conclusions -- References -- Using conversational structure as an interactional resource -- Pragmatic and social difficulties for children with AS -- Interactional scaffolding -- Adjacency pairs and children with autism spectrum disorders -- Data and methodology -- Analysis -- Predictability: Responding within the adjacency pair format -- Predictability: Providing a telling -- Reduced predictability: Initiating actions -- Reduced predictability: Initiating repair -- Concluding discussion -- References -- Appendix -- Atypical cerebral lateralisation and language impairment in autism -- Atypical cerebral lateralisation and language impairment in autism: Is fetal testosterone the linking mechanism? -- Atypical cerebral lateralisation and language impairment -- Fetal testosterone and atypical cerebral lateralisation -- Fetal testosterone exposure and autism spectrum disorders -- Fetal testosterone and language development -- Limitations and conclusions -- References -- Index.

Autism is among the most severe, prevalent and heritable of all neurodevelopmental disorders. However, the factors causing autism are still unclear. Language difficulties are at the core of autism, and any aetiological theory must incorporate a plausible explanation of this symptom. The development of cerebral lateralisation has long been theorised to be associated with language impairment. This chapter reviews the empirical evidence linking cerebral lateralisation and language impairment in both typical and atypical development, with a particular focus on the communication difficulties characteristic of autism. Potential causal pathways are also considered, such as fetal testosterone exposure. Finally, methodological limitations in this area and future avenues for research are discussed.

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