Many neurodevelopmental conditions imply absent or severely reduced language capacities at school age. Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging is highly limited. We selected a series of five cases scanned
with ...
Background & aims: Individuals with non- or minimally verbal autism (nvASD) are primarily characterized by a severe
speech production deficit, with speech limited to no or only a few words by school age. Significant ...
Language capacities in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) range from normal scores on standardized language tests to absence
of functional language in a substantial minority of 30% of individuals with ASD. Due to practical ...
Language impairment forms a broader spectrum in humans than current diagnostic labels such
as specific language impairment suggest. This thesis is about language capacities at the
neglected bottom end of severity across ...
