SOCIAL COGNITION IN DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDERS AND HIGH-LEVEL AUTISM

Authors
SHIELDS J VARLEY R BROKS P SIMPSON A
Citation
J. Shields et al., SOCIAL COGNITION IN DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDERS AND HIGH-LEVEL AUTISM, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 38(6), 1996, pp. 487-495
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00121622
Volume
38
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
487 - 495
Database
ISI
SICI code
0012-1622(1996)38:6<487:SCIDLD>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Two groups of children with contrasting types of developmental languag e disorder (phonologic-syntactic and semantic-pragmatic) were compared with a group of children with high-level autism and with a control gr oup of normal children on tests of social cognition (theory of mind; s ocial comprehension; and detection of eye direction). The similarly po or performances of the semantic-pragmatic group and the autistic group suggest that semantic-pragmatic language disorder lies on the autisti c spectrum.