Language and communication skills in preschool children with autism spectrum disorders: Contribution of cognition, severity of autism symptoms, and adaptive functioning to the variability

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 172-180

  Kjellmer, Liselotte ^a,b,c   Hedvall, Åsa ^a,b   Fernell, Elisabeth ^a,d   Gillberg, Christopher ^a   Norrelgen, Fritjof ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Habilitation and Health   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive functioning; Autism spectrum disorders; Autism symptom severity; Cognition; Communication; Communicative Development Inventories; Development; Language

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTISTIC BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CAREGIVER; CHILD; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; MACARTHUR BATES COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT INVENTORIES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VINELAND ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR SCALES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 80053444951     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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