In autism, there is laughing/giggling and ‘laughing/giggling’. There can be numerous reasons to laugh, which are difficult to understand...

Not much is known about the language trajectories of non-verbal and minimally verbal children yet. However, the number of research...

Why can’t my child speak? It was estimated that about one third (Bryson 1996) to one half (Lord & Paul 1997) of autistic people never...

At the age of about four months the baby starts babbling and producing different sounds. Vocalisations Interestingly, during the first...

We assume that language is necessary verbal (i.e., comprising of words). That is why we say that children are verbal if they can talk (no...

At about the same age all typically developing children, no matter what culture they are born into, manifest similar patterns of speech...

According to some researchers (e.g., Ramachandran 1995), it is mirror neurons that allow us to "read" and understand another's...

But do they? Giacomo Rizzollati and colleagues (1992) conducted experiments on monkeys, recording signals from parts of the frontal lobes...

Can’t start – can’t stop Another problem autistic individuals experience is ‘inertia’ (Dekker 1999) – difficulty in starting, stopping,...