Are linguistic and social-pragmatic abilities separable in neurotypical infants and infants later diagnosed with ASD?

ABSTRACT: Adult humans process communicative interactions by recognizing that information is being communicated through speech (linguistic ability) and simultaneously evaluating how to respond appropriately (social-pragmatic ability). These abilities may originate in infancy. Infants understand how speech communicates in social interactions, helping them learn language and how to interact with others. Infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who show deficits in social-pragmatic abilities, differ in how they attend to the linguistic and social-pragmatic information in their environment. Despite their interdependence, experimental measures of language and social-pragmatic attention are often studied in isolation in infancy. Thus, the extent to which language and social-pragmatic a

SUBMITTER: Yamashiro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6555415 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature