Obilježja komunikacije male djece s autizmom
Characteristics of communication in infantile autism

Summary/Abstract: Impaired communication in young children with autism is analyzed from dynamic and transactional perspective. The central point of the article is the reason why young children with autism are not able to develop language functionally. Eat ly detection of autism is very important and possible if the developmental expectations from the child are moved from language and speech toward the features of preverbal communication. Communicative development in young autistic childien is that actei - ized by absence of language, gaze alternation and conventional gestures and by impaired development of social cognition. Joint attention is an early-developing social-communicative skill and impaired development of this skill plays critical role in atypical communicative development in children with autism. From that point of view it is important in early intervention efforts to involve teaching joint attention to young children with autism. It is also important to understand a critical role which joint attention plays in social and language development in children in order to support development of communication in young children with autism.

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