EAN: 9781614510949

UNDERSTANDING ACTIONS STATES AND EVENTS - SUSAN...

This book explores an understudied area of language development in autism - namely  how
children with autism learn the meaning of verbs. The key feature is a profile of verb
acquisition in autism derived from qualitative analysis of the conversational language of ten
children with autism. Douglas examines whether this profile is typical or atypical compared
with verb learning in neurotypical children. Verb use is central to linguistic development  and
the ability of children with autism to develop and use verb categories is of interest  because
verbs also encode information about the number and type of participants and the temporal
location of the activity event. Moreover  the acquisition of verb meanings is often dependent
on other cognitive skills  such as the recognition that human beings have beliefs and desires
which motivate their actions. All these are areas which are widely considered problematic for
children with autism and continue to generate much discussion among researchers and clinicians.
This investigation is among the first studies of its type  offering new insights into the
process of language acquisition in autism.

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