Understanding Actions, States, and Events: Verb Learning in Children with Autism

by Susan Douglas

This book explores an understudied area of language development in autism - namely, how children with autism learn the meaning of verbs. The key feature is a profile of verb acquisition in autism derived from qualitative analysis of the conversational language of ten children with autism. Douglas examines whether this profile is typical or atypical compared with verb learning in neurotypical children. Verb use is central to linguistic development,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614510946
• ISBN13: 9781614510949
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"