Autistic people have unique ways of communicating and interacting that are rooted in their unique ways of thinking and experiencing the...

Some individuals with ASD (especially those with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome) possess well-developed spoken language,...

To speak (another language) or not to speak (with an autistic child)? Typically developing children in multilingual families tend to pick...

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...

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

Let’s start with linguistics: The way we label things around us means a great deal. Let’s look at the widely used terms in an ‘autistic...

Helen, an 11-year-old girl with autism, goes to mainstream school and does very well at all the subjects. But no one at school has ever...

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome or Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by sudden, brief, repetitive,...

A splinter skill or a learning style? One morning (not the best time for me – getting ready for my work), my autistic son (who had...

Insisting on ‘Look at me when I’m talking to you’ vs. Talking to the wall Some autistic children need an intensive interaction style that...

‘Do you want eye contact or a conversation?’ This was the question asked by someone with Asperger syndrome when he was approached with...