Linguistic camouflage in girls with autism spectrum disorder

Molecular Autism

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Parish Morris, Julia ^a,b   Liberman, Mark Y ^c   Cieri, Christopher ^c   Herrington, John D ^a,b   Yerys, Benjamin E ^a,b   Bateman, Leila ^a   Donaher, Joseph ^a   Ferguson, Emily ^a   Pandey, Juhi ^a   Schultz, Robert T ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Disfluency; Filled pauses; Gender differences; Language; Linguistic camouflage; Pragmatic communication; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85030181492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20402392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13229-017-0164-6     Document Type: Article

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