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Bilingualism allows autistic children to compensate for certain fundamental deficits – News-Medical.net
Affecting more than one in a hundred children, autism spectrum disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders.
Affecting more than one in a hundred children, autism spectrum disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. It has a particular impact on social interaction, including difficulties in understanding other people’s perspectives, beliefs, desires and emotions, known as ‘theory of mind’. Bilingual families with an autistic child often tend – and are sometimes encouraged – to forego the use of one of the home languages, so as not to further complicate the development of their child’s…
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