Patterns of language and discourse comprehension skills in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 534-539

  Åsberg, Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Discourse comprehension; Inferences; Language comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD LANGUAGE; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE;

EID: 78649458780     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00822.x     Document Type: Article

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