Table of contents
An introduction to communication in autism
Current findings and future directions
1–8
Section 1: Symbolic communication
Chapter 1. Prelinguistic communication
9–28
Chapter 2. Facilitating emergent verbal repertoires in individuals with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disorders
Insights from behaviour analysis
29–52
Section 2: Oral language
Chapter 3. Echolalia and language development in children with autism
53–74
Chapter 4. Do autism spectrum disorders and specific language impairment have a shared aetiology?
A review of the evidence
75–102
Chapter 5. Prosody and autism
103–122
Section 3: Literacy
Chapter 6. Reading for sound and reading for meaning in autism
Frith and Snowling (1983) revisited
123–146
Chapter 7. Language and literacy subtypes in young children with a high-functioning autism spectrum disorder
147–168
Section 4: Complex language skills
Chapter 8. The use of narrative in studying communication in Autism Spectrum Disorders
A review of methodologies and findings
169–216
Chapter 9. Using conversational structure as an interactional resource
Children with Asperger’s syndrome and their conversational partners
217–244
Section 5: Distal causes of language impairment
Chapter 10. Atypical cerebral lateralisation and language impairment in autism
Is fetal testosterone the linking mechanism?
245–272
Index
273–276
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