附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-280) and indexes.
Communication, language, speech -- Language acquisition: the theories -- From sensations to concepts: via different routes -- Cognitive styles and functions in autism -- Autistic culture? -- What language are they speaking? -- Language learning styles -- Speech and language development in non-autistic and autistic children -- Impairments of social communication in autism and language peculiarities specific to autism -- Fluent speakers: so what's the problem? -- Communication/language assessment strategies: communication profile -- Communication environment and interaction styles -- Selecting communication systems -- Teaching communication.
摘要:Providing a theoretical foundation for understanding communication and language impair-ments specific to autism, Olga Bogdashina explores the effects of different perceptual and cognitive styles on the communication and language development of autistic children. She stresses the importance of identifying each autistic individual's nonverbal language - which can be visual, tactile, kinaesthetic, auditory, olfactory or gustatory - with a view to establish a shared means of verbal communication. She offers an explanation of why certain approaches, for example PECS, might work with some autistic c.
