We believe that the absence of association between the severity of pragmatic deficits and behavior problems in this sample might have been again a consequence of the characteristics of this homogeneous group.
In addition to being a possible cause of post-injury pragmatic deficits, weak central coherence may be present in autistic patients [ 137- 139].
While arguments can be made that deficits in any of these capabilities (Theory of Mind, Central Coherence, and Executive Function) can result in pragmatic language deficits, there is no present evidence indicating which of the three is predominant in pragmatic deficits following traumatic brain injury.
Access and comprehension of this level of implied information within sentence structure represents a yet-unexplored degree of structural complexity in this population and presents a context within which to examine how structural comprehension impairments result in semantic and pragmatic deficits.
Further, examining access and comprehension of a fine-grain level of implied information within sentence structure presents a yet-unexplored degree of complexity within the domain of abilities of children with ASD and may better inform understanding of how structural comprehension impairments result in semantic and pragmatic deficits.
There may be, if language develops, odd and complex language disorders — a tendency to verbosity, empty chatter, cliché-ridden and formulaic speech; the psychologist Doris Allen describes this aspect of their autism as a "semantic-pragmatic deficit".
There may be, if language develops, odd and complex language disorders a tendency to verbosity, empty chatter, cliché-ridden and formulaic speech; the psychologist Doris Allen describes this aspect of their autism as a "semantic-pragmatic deficit".
Pragmatics deficits would therefore be expected to produce bimodally distributed values of sequence sensitive measures.
These studies indicate that structural and pragmatic language deficits are logically separable, but often co-occur.
