Theory of Mind (ToM) is a critical aspect of social cognition and undergoes significant developmental changes from infancy to adulthood....

Theory of Mind (ToM) has been applied not only to humans and animals but also to Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. The extent to wh

Art activities have shown to be highly beneficial for autistic individuals (Vrisaba et al. 2021) because art offers a unique medium...

‘Autistic individuals always say what they think / or what they want to say’ There is a common misconception that autistic individuals...

Imitation as a Social Tool in Autism Though the broken mirror hypothesis  predicts that autistic individuals should show severe...

‘Autistic people don’t do metaphors’ Because of their literal interpretation, autistic children do experience difficulties in...

After examining sensory perception in autism in the first book, the newly released second instalment focuses on communication and...

Is it a supernatural or natural phenomenon? It depends. For example, if we see ‘telepathy’ as something ‘unscientific’ and ‘not worthy’...

There are other types of echolalia that are difficult to explain, for example, involuntary echolalia , when the person blurts out words...

Though echolalia can be non-communicative , in many cases it is used for communication. Parents of autistic children (with echolalia) can...

If it’s not for communication, what’s the point? As I didn’t know much at the time, I made a mistake thinking that as soon as my son...

Which is better for autistic individuals? Although sign language was first developed as a means of communication for the deaf, it has...

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 six...

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...