Pragmatic language skill is regarded as an area of universal deficit in Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD), but little is known about factors related to its development and how it in turn …

Purpose This study compared pragmatic language in youths (9–17 years) with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) and those with typical development (TD) on the Yale in vivo …

Despite its prominence, pragmatic characteristic associated with autism is under-explored
and thus was not well defined. The present study attempted to depict a relatively …

Pragmatic language impairments are common in neurodevelopmental disorders, especially
in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The relationship between structural language skills and …

Purpose To compare the Children's Communication Checklist—2 (CCC–2), a parent report
instrument, with the Test of Pragmatic Language (TOPL), a test administered to the child, on …

Although pragmatic speech impairments have been found across the autism spectrum, how
these manifest in minimally verbal (MV) individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has …

Purpose Impaired pragmatic language (ie, language use for social interaction) is a hallmark
feature of both autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most …

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have difficulties with understanding
pragmatic language and also nonliteral language. However, little is understood about the …

Purpose Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and children with developmental
language disorder (DLD) face challenges with pragmatics, but the nature and sources of …

Pragmatic skills enable children to produce and comprehend words and sentences in ways
that are appropriate to the conversational context. While structural language is known to vary …