%0 Journal Article
%T Language Comprehension in Autism ¨C Explicable by a Detail-focused Style of Information-processing?
%A Melanie Eberhardt
%A Christoph Michael M¨¹ller
%J Empirische Sonderp£¿dagogik
%D 2010
%I Pabst Science Publishers
%X Compared to language production little attention has been directed to the processes of language comprehension of people with autism. Often, empirical results on this topic are interpreted solely within a framework of social cognition. However, results could also be explained by a detail-oriented processing-style proposed by the theory of weak central coherence (Happ¨¦ & Frith, 2006). In order to examine this, pivotal results on speech and language comprehension in autism are arranged along a linguistic model and compared with the assumptions of theory of weak central coherence. The results show that a detail-focused processing style can provide significant explanations for the specific language comprehension abilities in autism. Implications for a better understanding of persons with autism are discussed.
%K autism
%K language comprehension
%K information-processing
%K weak central coherence
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