This article reviews the current knowledge state on pragmatic and structural language
abilities in autism and their potential relation to extralinguistic abilities and autistic traits. The …

Se han encontrado resultados contradictorios en relación con el perfil cognitivo que
caracteriza a la población con trastorno del espectro del autismo (TEA). El objetivo de esta …

Psycholinguistic research on pragmatics in the neurotypical population has increasingly
framed pragmatic competence and related cognitive skills in terms of individual differences …

Autistic individuals are commonly said–and also consider themselves–to be excessively
literalist, in the sense that they tend to prefer literal interpretations of words and utterances …

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) negatively impacts mental health, particularly
in mothers of autistic children who experience heightened stress. Applied behaviour …

In a rapidly changing and diverse world, the ability to reason about conflicting perspectives
is critical for effective communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. The current pre …

This Element aims to address a gap in literature at the intersection of linguistics, particularly
pragmatics, and health sciences such as speech and language pathology. The first section …

Background The ability to understand the mental state of others (social cognition), as well as
language, is crucial for children to have good social adaptation. Social cognition (SC) has …

Recent proposals in pragmatics identified two types of pragmatics: linguistic-pragmatics and
social-pragmatics, as comprehension seems to rely on linguistic and Theory of Mind (ToM) …

Background Pragmatic skills allow children to use language for social purposes, that is, to
communicate and interact with people. Most children with neurodevelopmental disorders …