Taking an alternative perspective on language in autism

摘要: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have problems social communication and interaction. These are possibly partly due to a perspective-taking deficit, which makes it difficult understand that others may think, know or see things differently. Jessica Overweg tested whether children ASD also show language comprehension as result of deficit. The ability hearer take the speaker’s perspective into account is important in comprehension. For example, skills needed interpret personal pronouns, such I you. Suppose colleague says: James said: “You won price”. To select correct referent you, shift from actual speaker (the colleague) reported (James). Without this shift, will think he price, even though used pronoun you refer himself. make needs skills. difficulties interpreting linguistic expressions involve taking, pronouns. She found This means deficit not only influence their interaction skills, but Therefore, future, clinical setting at schools, more attention paid ASD.