Autism Spectrum Disorder, Language Disorder, and Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder: Overlaps, Distinguishing Features, and Clinical Implications

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• 作者：Lauren J. Taylor and Andrew J. O. Whitehouse
• 刊名：Australian Psychologist
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：51
• 期：4
• 页码：287-295
• 全文大小：258K
• ISSN：1742-9544

文摘

The diagnostic boundaries between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and specific language impairment (SLI) are not clear-cut. Evidence of the lack of distinct boundaries between these disorders comes from research identifying a group of children who have pragmatic language difficulties that can be distinguished from those in children with SLI and those with ASD. These findings have led to the inclusion of a new diagnostic category, social (pragmatic) communication disorder (SPCD), in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5th Edition DSM-5. While this new diagnostic category appears to capture a subgroup of children who may not have been recognised in the DSM-IV, SPCD has been criticised due to a lack of empirical evidence, showing that the disorder is distinct from ASD in terms of aetiology, intervention, and prognosis.