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Other authors / contributors: | Arciuli, Joanne, editor.
Brock, Jon (Jonathan Peter), editor.
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ISBN: | 9789027270320 9027270325 9789027244000 9027244006
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from resource home page (ebrary, viewed on January 20, 2015).
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Summary: | Autism is among the most severe, prevalent and heritable of all neurodevelopmental disorders. However, the factors causing autism are still unclear. Language difficulties are at the core of autism, and any aetiological theory must incorporate a plausible explanation of this symptom. The development of cerebral lateralisation has long been theorised to be associated with language impairment. This chapter reviews the empirical evidence linking cerebral lateralisation and language impairment in both typical and atypical development, with a particular focus on the communication difficulties charac.
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Other form: | Print version: Communication in autism. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014] 9789027244000
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