Despite significant advances in the field of social neuroscience, much remains to be
understood regarding the development and maintenance of social skills across the life span …

Background DSM‐5 sees the introduction of Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder
(SPCD), characterized by persistent difficulties using verbal and nonverbal communication …

Failure to develop normal language comprehension is an early warning sign of autism, but
the neural mechanisms underlying this signature deficit are unknown. This is because of an …

Portrayals of individuals with Williams syndrome (WS), a genetic disorder caused by a
microdeletion of∼ 25 genes on chromosome 7q11. 23, have reached the general public …

Purpose We examined the association of bilingual exposure with structural and pragmatic
language development in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Method …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …