Week 3: Autism

What are the 3 stages of language acquisition?

-sharing emotions

-sharing perceptions and pursuing goals

-sharing attention and intention

Describe sharing emotions stage

-2 months

-social smile

-reciprocal exchange of emotions

-only social cognitive

Describe the sharing perceptions and pursuing goals

-6-10 months

-turn-taking

-requesting, protesting

-Word learning occurs through perceptual salience

-purely linguistics

What is perceptual salience?

learning the word by seeing the object or hearing the word

Describe the sharing attention and intention stage

-12-15 months

-initiating and responding to joint attention

-word learning through social cues

-social cognitive and linguistic

What are the 2 core features of autism?

-deficits in social communication and interaction

-RRB’s

What is the primary area of language that is affected for individuals with autism?

pragmatics

The only disorder that you cannot have with autism is

social communication disorder (SCD)

Why can you not have SCD and Autism?

SCD requires the absence of RRB’s

Reciprocity

-back and forth

-sharing

-emotions

Nonverbal communication

-gestures

-eye contact

-facial expressions

With autism, language can look like… (4 points)

-echolalia

-repetitive language

-pedantic language

-literal

True or false: Pursuing goals is social.

False

What stage(s) do children with autism acquire ?

Sharing perceptions and pursuing goals

During pursuing goals stage, how do children learn words?

perceptual salience

During sharing attention stage, how do children learn words?

social cues

What does deficits in social communication/interaction look like?

-lack of interest in others

-limited use of nonverbals

-difficulties understanding figurative language

What do RRB’s look like?

-repetitive movements

-repetitive speech

-difficulties with speech

-sensory differences

True or false: An individual with autism cannot have language impairments in areas like semantics or grammar.

false