Narrative performance of optimal outcome children and adolescents with a history of an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1681-1694

  Suh, Joyce ^a   Eigsti, Inge Marie ^a   Naigles, Letitia ^a   Barton, Marianne ^a   Kelley, Elizabeth ^b   Fein, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autism; Dysfluency; Language; Narrative; Optimal; Outcome; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW REVISED; AUTISM DIAGNOSTIC OBSERVATION SCHEDULE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NARRATIVE; OPTIMAL OUTCOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PRONOUN REFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STORYTELLING; AUTISM; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLOGY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NARRATION;

EID: 84903742237     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2042-9     Document Type: Article

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