This article reviews recent work on autistic individuals' understanding of figurative language.
One currently influential theory of autism proposes that the key impairments in imagination …

Communication problems form one of the key diagnostic criteria for autism, but there is a
wide variety of manifestations. The theory that autistic individuals are unable to represent …

Discusses general conceptual growth, with special emphasis on the contributions of Piaget.
Other areas discussed—including social cognition, perception, and memory—are based …

How do children learn that the word" dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just
to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of …

At a very early age, the child is able to use and understand language correctly. Later comes
the precocious ability to “reflect” upon and deliberately control its use. Metalinguistic …

This is a Classic Edition of Dorothy Bishop's award-winning textbook on the development of
language comprehension, which has been in print since 1997, and now includes a new …

Basic reading proficiency is key to success in all content areas, but attending to students'
literacy development remains a challenge for many teachers, especially after the primary …

7 studies of the acquisition of knowledge about the appearance-reality distinction suggest
the following course of development. Many 3-year-olds seem to possess little or no …

Background Developmental psychology is a vibrant and rapidly growing field of psychology
that seems, with each passing year, to become more and more exciting, comprehensive …

The present study examined lying behaviour in children between 3 and 7 years of age with
two experiments. A temptation resistance paradigm was used in which children were left …