Reply published In: Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1] 2022
► pp. 92–102
Response to the commentaries
Response to Commentaries on bilingual language development in autism
Published online: 13 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.00034.pre
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.00034.pre
Article outline
- 1.Methodological issues regarding (bilingual) language development in autism
- 2.Heterogeneity, categorical and continuous, in ASD and in bilingualism
- 2.1Autism diagnosis
- 2.2Dimensional (continuums) and stratified (categories) strategies for studying heterogeneity
- 3.Non-interactive (bilingual) language acquisition
- 3.1Dissociation between social interaction/communication and development of fluent language in autistic individuals
- 3.2Effects of social interaction deficits on the role bilingual experience variables play
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