What Silent Pauses Can 'Tell' Us About the Storytelling Skills of Autistic Children: Relations Between Pausing, Language Skills and Executive Functions.
Silent pauses may serve communicative purposes such as demarcating boundaries between discourse units in language production. Previous research has shown that autistic children differ in their pausing behavior from typically-developing (TD) peers, however, the factors behind this difference remain u...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 55; no. 12; pp. 4171 - 4185 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2025
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