What is it about?
This study is about deferred imitation and social communication skills among speaking and nonspeaking children with autism, as compared with typically developing children (mean age 66,8 months). It's focused on how such skills are associated with language use in both speaking and nonspeaking children.
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Why is it important?
It's noteworthy that in this study we found that differences in social communication between speaking children with autism and typical children were negligible.
Perspectives
These findings highlight the need to consider verbal ability in autism research and clinical practice and indicate that specific difficulties in deferred imitation exist in autism but are largely influenced by verbal ability.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Deferred Imitation and Social Communication in Speaking and Nonspeaking Children With Autism, Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, December 2012, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1088357612468030.
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