Tag: autism
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Ungrammatical utterances and disfluent speech as causes of comprehension problems in interactions of preadolescents with highly functioning autism
A recent study authored by me and Minna Laakso (2019) describes the role of ungrammatical utterances and disfluent speech in the creation of comprehension problems between the participants in group therapy sessions of preadolescents with autism. The speech of the autistic preadolescents included frequent disfluencies and morpho-syntactic problems, such as wrong case endings, ambiguous…