Introdução: A Perturbação do Espetro do Autismo (PEA) é uma perturbação do neurodesenvolvimento que se carateriza por um conjunto de dificuldades na comunicação e interação social, associada a comportamentos repetitivos e interesses restritos (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Os estudos nas dificuldades linguísticas associadas à PEA, anteriormente consideradas circunscritas à área da pragmática, têm des...
In this paper we investigate the comprehension of relative clauses and control structures in children diagnosed with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Several studies have explored a syntactic deficit in SLI children, and particularly a deficit in comprehension and production of object relative clauses (Friedmann & Novogrodsky, 2004; Novogrodsky & Fr...
Traditionally, Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have been seen as two distinct conditions with different etiologies. More recently, there has been much discussion about the points which separate these pathologies, but mainly concern about the similarities between both, as well as about the possibility of a common etiology and an intersection at the genetic level. Some autho...