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A link between developmental language disorders and atypical cerebral lateralization has been postulated since the 1920s, but evidence has been indirect and...
Autism is a disorder characterized by a core impairment in social behaviour. A prominent component of this social deficit is poor orienting to speech.
Rates of diagnosis of autism have risen since 1980, raising the question of whether some children who previously had other diagnoses are now being diagnosed...
This article tests the hypothesis that individuals with autism poorly encode verbal information to the semantic level of processing, instead paying greater...
The etiology of autism spectrum disorders is unknown but there are claims of increasing prevalence in many countries.
Prenatal exposure to testosterone has been shown to affect fetal brain maturation as well as postnatal cognition and behavior in animal studies.
This is the first prospective study to identify an association between early life testosterone exposure and pragmatic language difficulties in girls
This paper discusses changes in diagnostic criteria, decreasing age at diagnosis, improved case ascertainment, diagnostic substitution, and social influences.
Evidence that some children also develop autistic symptomatology over time has raised suggestions that developmental language disorder...
The broad autism phenotype commonly refers to sub-clinical levels of autistic-like behaviour and cognition presented in biological relatives of autistic people. In a recent study, we reported findings suggesting that the broad autism phenotype may also be expressed in facial morphology, specifically increased facial masculinity.