This paper takes a critical look at two assumptions about communication and language in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) which seem to exist in Denmark and to influence clinical practice. The two assumptions are: (1) pragmatic language abilities are more or less absent in ASD, and ...
Children with speech, language and communication needs: their perceptions of their quality of life Background: This study is part of a programme of research aiming to develop a quantitative measure of quality of life for children with communication needs... C Markham,DV Laar,D Gibbard,... - ...
Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience pragmatic language deficits, but it is not known whether these difficulties are primarily associated with high levels of inattention, hyperactivity, or both. We investigated pragmatic aspects of communication and language comprehension i...
312Language and CommunicationAbilities of Bilingual Childrenwith Autism Spectrum DisordersStefka H. Marinova-Todd andPat MirendaIntroductionMore than half of the world’s population uses two or more languages(Grosjean, 2010). In Canada, 20% of the population speaks a languagein addition to one of ...
Infants & Young ChildrenPrizant, B. M. & Wetherby, A. M. 1995. Communication and Language Assessment for Young Children. In Blackman, J. A. (Ed.) Identification and Assessment in Early Intervention. Gaithersburg: An Aspen Publication.
Every culture has its own body language, and children absorb its nuance(细微差别) along with spokenlanguage. A Frenchman talks and moves in French. The way an Englishman crosses his legs is nothing like theway a male American does it. In talking Americans are apt to end a statement with ...
The characteristics of language and other forms of communication in normal and autistic children are described. The main basis of comparison is the extent to which each group can comprehend and use spoken and nonspoken language and also develop inner language. It is suggested that the central prob...
PURPOSE: Parental reports of communication, listening, and behavior in children receiving a clinical diagnosis of specific language impairment (SLI) or auditory processing disorder (APD) were compared with direct tests of intelligence, memory, language, phonology, literacy, and speech intelligibility. The...
Every culture has its own body language, and children absorb its nuances along with the spoken language. A Frenchman talks and moves in French. The way an Englishman crosses his leg is (36) like the way a male American does it. When we communicate with people from other cultures, the bod...
Language is important both because of what it communicates and how it does the communication. The power of language is so strong that it shows how language can actually influence the way we think. To broaden language is to broaden the ability to think. We can see this in children, whose ...