Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ANKARA UNIVERSITESI EGITIM BILIMLERI FAKULTESI OZEL EGITIM DERGISI-ANKARA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION, cilt.17, sa.2, ss.163-192, 2016 (ESCI)
Difficulties in language and communication are diagnostic criteria of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and these difficulties are taken as an important variable in determining the severity of the disorder for the children with ASD. It is accepted that language development of children with ASD is heterogeneous. While some of the children can never acquire language, some of them may show language use similar to their peers with typical development. In this review developmental characteristics of children with ASD in language and communication skills are examined. Children with ASD show developmental characteristics/impairments specific to the disorder in pre-linguistic social communication skills and in language components. Therefore, in this review development of children with ASD in pre-linguistic nonverbal social communication skills is discussed. In addition to this, developmental characteristics of verbal children with ASD in morpho-syntax, semantics, and pragmatics which are language components are also examined. This review provides a guide to teachers and researchers who work on language development of children with ASD.