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While autism includes significant and sometimes extreme learning and
communication difficulties, there are some specific syndromes and disorders
which also may be part of autism or share characteristics with autistic
spectrum disorders. Sometimes identification of a specific syndrome will
help determine appropriate remediation and accomodation more precisely
than the overall diagnosis of an autistic spectrum disorder.
| Semantic Pragmatic
Disorder |
This condition involves deficits in social and nonverbal communication.
Semantic Pragmatic Disorder may be a separate PDD or it may simply
describe the communication deficits in all verbal people with autism.
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| Hyperlexia |
This syndrome is defined by very early precocious reading, delays
in verbal language, and deficits in social skills. Hyperlexia may
be a feature of autism or may occur without meeting the criteria for
a specific Pervasive Developmental Disorder. |
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| Verbal
or Oral Dyspraxia |
A motor disorder which specifically affects the mouth and speech.
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| Central Auditory
Processing Disorder |
A condition which affects the way the brain descriminates and processes
sounds. It can lead to communication problems, especially in places
where there are significant background noises. |
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| Nonverbal Learning
Disabilities |
Closely related to Asperger Syndrome,
nonverbal learning disabilities may include deficits in interpreting
the nonverbal aspects of language, organization skills, mathematics,
and motor skills. |
Articles
Diagnosis and Intervention Strategies for
Disorders of Written Language
by Margaret J. Kay, Ed.D.
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Title: Late-Talking Children
Author: Thomas Sowell
Date: August 1997
Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 0465038344
Title: Childhood Speech, Language, and Listening Problems: What
Every Parent Should Know
Author: Patricia McAleer Hamaguchi
Date: April 1995
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471034134
Title: Communication Problems in Autism (Current Issues in Autism)
Author: Eric Schopler, Gary B. Mesibov (Editor)
Date: June 1985
Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp
ISBN: 0306418592
Title: Teaching Spontaneous Communication to Autistic and Developmentally...
Author: Linda R. Watson (Editor)
Date: June 1991
Publisher: Pro Ed
ISBN: 0890795282
Title: Language and Treatment of Autistic and Developmentally
Disordered Children
Author: Thomas L. Layton (Editor)
Out of Print
ASIN: 0398053081
Speech and Language Problems in Children: a guide for parents and children
Jean Stabenow Curran and Bryant J. Cratty
Denver, CO: Love Publishing Company
1978
ISBN 0891080767
Parent Articles 2: more articles to enhance parent involvement
Anthony B. DeFeo, ed.
Tucson, AZ: Communication Skill Builders
1995
ISBN 0761630732
Jon Eisenson
Language & Speech Disorders in Children
New York: Pergamon Books, Inc.
1986
ISBN 0-08-033181-5
Sam Goldstein and Pam Hinerman
A Parent's Guide: language and behavioral problems in children
Salt Lake City, UT: Neurology, Learning, and Behavior Center
1988
Available from Hawthorne Educational Services 1-800-542-1673
James Law ed.
The Early Identification of Language Impairment in Children
New York: Chapman & Hall
1992
ISBN 1-56593-026-6
Mogford-Bevan, Kay and Jane Sadler, eds.
Child Language Disability.
Bristol, PA: MultiLingual Matters Ltd.,
1991.
ISBN 1-85359-127-0
Parent Articles: enhance parent involvement in language learning.
Tucson, AZ: Communication Skill Builders,
1988
ISBN 0-88450-235-X
Polloway, Edward A. and Tom E. Smith.
Language Instruction for Students with Disabilities. 2nd ed.
Denver, CO: Love Publishing Co.,
1992
ISBN 0891082212
Ratner, Vivienne L and Laura Harris.
Understanding Language Disorders: the impact on learning.
Eau Claire, WI: Thinking Publications,
1994.
ISBN 093059990X
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Language
Disorders
A large index of links to sites on a range of topics: child language disorders
to language disorder research.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
(ASHA)
The mission of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is to
promote the interests of and provide the highest quality services for
professionals in audiology, speech-language pathology, and speech and
hearing science, and to advocate for people with communication disabilities.
Department
of Communicative Disorders, University of Mississippi
Information about the faculty, Center for Speech and Hearing Research,
academic information, and others.
Ultrasound Oral Imaging
Laboratory
Information from the NIH lab, on using ultrasound for research on swallowing
disorders, tumor detection, and tongue force analysis.
Children's
Health - Aphasia
Spoken Language
Problems
How language problems happen, and their impact on a child's development.
Speech Research
on the Net
A directory of communication disorders links, arranged by categories:
Speech Physiology and Acoustics, Hearing and Perception, and more.
Department of Communicative Disorders,
UW-Madison
About the courses, graduate programs, syllabi, auditory research, and
more.
National Institute on Deafness and
Other Communication Disorders
The Institute supports and conducts research on the normal and disordered
processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language.
Speech
and Language Disorders
What follows is the beginning of a library of pointers to resources and
information on the Internet relevant to speech-language disorders and
differences.
Language
Disorders
large index of links to sites on a range of topics: child language disorders
to language disorder research.
Language
and Communication
in Aphasia
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