Pragmatic Impairments in Adults with Childhood Diagnoses of Autism or Developmental Receptive Language Disorder

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 impairment...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of autism and developmental disorders 1993-12, Vol.23 (4), p.593-617
1. Verfasser:	Eales, Martin J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Adult and adolescent clinical studies Adults Autism Autistic Disorder - diagnosis Autistic Disorder - psychology Autistic people Biological and medical sciences Child Children Communication Communication Skills Conversation Discourse Analysis Follow-Up Studies Humans Intelligence Interpersonal Communication Language Development Disorders - diagnosis Language Development Disorders - psychology Language disorders Longitudinal Studies Male Medical sciences Other psychotic disorders Pragmatics Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Psychoses Receptive Language Social Behavior Speech Perception Speech Production Measurement Verbal Behavior
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Zusammenfassung:	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 into spoken utterances did not distinguish between the groups. (Author/JDD)
ISSN:	0162-3257 1573-3432
DOI:	10.1007/bf01046104