Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. An introduction to communication in autism 1
4. Section 1: Symbolic communication
5. Chapter 1. Prelinguistic communication 11
6. Chapter 2. Facilitating emergent verbal repertoires in individuals with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disorders 29
7. Section 2: Oral language
8. Chapter 3. Echolalia and language development in children with autism 55
9. Chapter 4. Do autism spectrum disorders and specific language impairment have a shared aetiology? 75
10. Chapter 5. Prosody and autism 103
11. Section 3: Literacy
12. Chapter 6. Reading for sound and reading for meaning in autism 125
13. Chapter 7. Language and literacy subtypes in young children with a high-functioning autism spectrum disorder 147
14. Section 4: Complex language skills
15. Chapter 8. The use of narrative in studying communication in Autism Spectrum Disorders 171
16. Chapter 9. Using conversational structure as an interactional resource 217
17. Section 5: Distal causes of language impairment
18. Chapter 10. Atypical cerebral lateralisation and language impairment in autism 247
19. Index 273