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Sterponi, Laura; de Kirby, Kenton; Shankey, Jennifer – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
In this article, we invite a rethinking of traditional perspectives of language in autism. We advocate a theoretical reappraisal that offers a corrective to the dominant and largely tacitly held view that language, in its essence, is a referential system and a reflection of the individual's cognition. Drawing on scholarship in Conversation…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language, Speech