title: Social cognition in developmental language disorders and high-level autism.
abstract: Two groups of children with contrasting types of developmental language disorder (phonologic-syntactic and semantic-pragmatic) were compared with a group of children with high-level autism and with a control group of normal children on tests of social cognition (theory of mind; social comprehension; and detection of eye direction). The similarly poor performances of the semantic-pragmatic group and the autistic group suggest that semantic-pragmatic language disorder lies on the autistic spectrum.
authors.affiliation: Storm House School, National Autistic Society, Doncaster, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shields
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Varley
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Broks
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Simpson
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics