Language Disorders - created from Mind Map

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ASD

SLI

ID

significant difficulties in social communication and interaction, engagement in restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, and either hypo- or hyper- sensitive to sensory stimuli

poor joint attention, impaired nonverbal behaviors, minimal imitation of communication, difficulties w symbolic and imaginative play

persistent difficulty with use of verbal and nonverbal communication

impairment in ability to shift style to match context, deficits for social purposes, difficulty with rules of conversation, difficulty with non-literal language

limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior

30% due to prenatal causes, 15-20% to environmental factors