Jon Brock

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jon Brock is involved.

Title

Communication in Autism

Edited by Joanne Arciuli and Jon Brock

Communication in Autism adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore one of the most common developmental disorders associated with communication impairment. Perhaps the most fascinating thing about communication in autism is that variation is as extreme as it could possibly be. While some… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 11] 2014. vi, 275 pp.

Articles

Arciuli, Joanne and Jon Brock 2014 An introduction to communication in autism: Current findings and future directions Communication in Autism, Arciuli, Joanne and Jon Brock (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article

Brock, Jon and Nathan Caruana 2014 Chapter 6. Reading for sound and reading for meaning in autism: Frith and Snowling (1983) revisited Communication in Autism, Arciuli, Joanne and Jon Brock (eds.), pp. 125–146 | Article

In their classic 1983 study, Frith and Snowling reported evidence for a dissociation in autism between intact semantic processing of single words, but relative difficulty on tests of sentence or paragraph comprehension. Here, we revisit the 7 experiments in Frith and Snowling’s paper, in the light… read more