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Acknowledgments |
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Preface |
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List of most frequent acronyms and abbreviations |
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1.1 Autism Spectrum Disorder: Definition and diagnostic criteria |
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1.2 Studying heterogeneity in autism |
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1.3 Main topics of the present work |
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1.3.1 Linguistic and intellectual abilities in ASD: How are they currently defined? |
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1.3.2 Growing up with two languages: Bilingualism in ASD |
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1.3.3 Interactive technologies: A novel approach for training language abilities in ASD |
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1.4 Structure of the book |
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Chapter 2 Structural language and Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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2.2 Heterogeneity of language abilities in ASD: How to disentangle it? |
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2.4 Structural language in ASD: Some methodological considerations |
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2.5 Scoping Review on structural language abilities in ASD |
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2.5.1 Search strategy, inclusion criteria and coding system |
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2.6 Structural language abilities in monolingual children on the autism spectrum |
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2.6.1 Articulation and Phonology in children on the autism spectrum |
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2.6.1.1 Articulatory abilities in children on the autism spectrum |
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2.6.1.2 Phonological abilities in children on the autism spectrum |
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2.6.2 General conclusion on articulatory and phonological abilities in children on the autism spectrum |
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2.6.3 Morphosyntax in children on the autism spectrum |
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2.6.3.1 Morphosyntactic abilities in children without intellectual impairment on the autism spectrum |
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2.6.3.1.1 Studies comparing morphosyntactic abilities in autistic children without intellectual impairment and TD children |
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2.6.3.1.2 Studies comparing morphosyntactic abilities in children with ASD-LI and children with DLD |
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2.6.3.1.3 Structural language in ASD: Is there an overlap with DLD? |
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2.6.3.1.4 Studies comparing morphosyntactic abilities in ASD-LI without intellectual impairment and children with DLD |
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2.6.3.2 Morphosyntactic abilities in autistic children with intellectual impairment |
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2.6.3.2.1 Morphosyntactic abilities in autistic children with and without intellectual impairment |
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2.6.3.2.2 Evaluation of morphosyntactic performance in studies including both autistic children with and without intellectual impairment and children with DLD |
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2.6.4 General conclusions on morphosyntactic abilities in children on the autism spectrum |
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2.7 General conclusions on structural language abilities in monolingual children on the autism spectrum |
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2.8 Structural language abilities in bilingual children on the autism spectrum |
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2.8.1 Introduction: What do we know about bilingualism in ASD |
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2.8.2 Morphosyntactic abilities in bilingual children on the autism spectrum |
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2.8.3 General conclusions on morphosyntactic abilities in bilingual children on the autism spectrum |
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2.8.4 The case of the Savant Christopher |
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2.9 General conclusions on structural language abilities in bilingual children on the autism spectrum |
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Chapter 3 Repetition Tasks for evaluating language abilities in monolingual and bilingual children on the autism spectrum |
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3.2 Exploring performance of monolingual and bilingual children on the autism spectrum via NWR and SR |
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3.2.1 Nonword Repetition (NWR) Tasks |
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3.2.1.1 Studies employing NWR tasks |
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3.2.2 General conclusions on NWR tasks |
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3.2.3 Final remarks and limitation of studies using NWR tasks |
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3.2.4 Sentence Repetition (SR) Tasks |
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3.2.4.1 Literature review on studies that employed SR tasks |
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3.2.5 General conclusions on SR tasks |
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3.2.6 Final remarks and limitation of studies using SR tasks |
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3.3 General conclusions on structural language abilities in monolingual and bilingual children on the autism spectrum: The use of repetition tasks |
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3.4 Summary and concluding remarks |
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Chapter 4 Intelligence profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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4.2 What do we know about intelligence in autism? |
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4.2.1 Performance of children on the autism spectrum: Discrepancies between RPM and FSIQ (WISC-IV) |
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4.2.2 Performance of children on the autism spectrum: Discrepancies between indices of the WISC-IV |
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4.2.3 Intellectual abilities in bilingual children on the autism spectrum |
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4.2.4 RPM and PRI: Most appropriate tools? |
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4.2.5 Conclusions for the evaluation of autistic intelligence |
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4.3 How intellectual abilities have been evaluated in studies assessing language abilities in children on the autism spectrum |
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4.3.1 Evaluation of intellectual abilities in studies assessing language skills in children on the autism spectrum: Description, limitations and hypothesis for the present study |
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4.4 General conclusions and direction of research for the present study |
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Chapter 5 Autism severity and developmental factors |
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5.2 Autism severity and linguistic/intellectual abilities: What do we know from currently used measures? |
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5.3 ADOS calibrated severity scores and CARS: The most appropriate measures |
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5.4 Developmental factors |
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Chapter 6 Profiles in children on the autism spectrum: Insights from research |
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6.2 The experimental study |
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6.2.1 Materials and methods |
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6.2.1.2 Experimental language tasks |
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6.2.1.2.1 LITMUS-NWR-French |
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6.2.1.2.2 LITMUS-SR-French |
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6.2.1.2.3 LITMUS-tasks: Data collection, procedure and coding |
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6.2.1.4 Severity of autism scores and developmental factors |
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6.2.3.1 Reducing the number of factors in describing language and nonverbal ability profiles: PCA |
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6.2.3.2 Interim discussion |
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6.3 General conclusions and discussion |
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Chapter 7 Interactive technologies for training language skills in children on the autism spectrum |
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7.2 Interactive technologies for children on the autism spectrum |
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191 | (3) |
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7.3 Interactive technologies for training language abilities in children on the autism spectrum |
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7.3.1 Computer-based applications |
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7.3.1.1 Advantages in using computer-based applications for training language skills in children on the autism spectrum |
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7.3.2 SAR for children on the autism spectrum |
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7.3.2.1 Advantages in using SAR for training language skills in children on the autism spectrum |
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7.3.3 (Embodied) Conversational Agents |
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7.3.3.1 Advantages of using ECA for training language skills in children on the autism spectrum |
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7.4 How to integrate interactive technology into speech therapy: The need of a multidisciplinary approach |
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References |
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Subject Index |
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263 | (2) |
Language Index |
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