Language and ToM development in autism versus Asperger syndrome: Contrasting influences of syntactic versus lexical/semantic maturity

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 377-385

  Paynter, Jessica ^a   Peterson, Candida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; Autism; Language development; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77949568636     PISSN: 17509467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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