Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
How the Core Deficits Affect Language Acquisition and Linguistic Comprehension

How the Core Deficits Affect Language Acquisition and Linguistic Comprehension

Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781799894421|ISBN10: 1799894428|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799894438|EISBN13: 9781799894445
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9442-1.ch003
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Katharine P. Beals. "How the Core Deficits Affect Language Acquisition and Linguistic Comprehension." Cutting-Edge Language and Literacy Tools for Students on the Autism Spectrum, IGI Global, 2022, pp.53-77. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9442-1.ch003

APA

K. Beals (2022). How the Core Deficits Affect Language Acquisition and Linguistic Comprehension. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9442-1.ch003

Chicago

Katharine P. Beals. "How the Core Deficits Affect Language Acquisition and Linguistic Comprehension." In Cutting-Edge Language and Literacy Tools for Students on the Autism Spectrum. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9442-1.ch003

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

This chapter examines how the core deficits discussed in Chapter 2 account for the linguistic deficits discussed in Chapter 1. It explains why diminished attention to speech and diminished joint attention behaviors impede linguistic immersion, potentially limiting the acquisition of vocabulary and syntactic structures. It discusses echolalia and how it reflects limitations in syntactic understanding. It also discusses how difficulty interpreting facial expressions and social interactions impedes the acquisition of socio-emotional vocabulary. It then turns to social communication, also known as pragmatics, as well as to comprehension, and explains why these aspects of language are, to varying degrees, universally impaired across the autism spectrum. Finally, it offers further discussion of non-speaking autism: why it often correlates with nonverbal autism and what the underlying issues appear to be. It concludes with 13 takeaways related to language and literacy acquisition in autism that will inform later chapters.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.