• DOI:10.1177/026988119601000108
Corpus ID: 978233

Social communication and its disorder in autism and Asperger syndrome

@article{Frith1996SocialCA,
  title={Social communication and its disorder in autism and Asperger syndrome},
  author={U. Frith},
  journal={Journal of Psychopharmacology},
  year={1996},
  volume={10},
  pages={48 - 53}
}

• U. Frith
• Published 1996
• Psychology, Medicine
• Journal of Psychopharmacology

Autism is a devastating developmental disorder characterised by severe impairments in social interaction. Asperger syndrome shows similar impairments, but of a less extreme form. In this paper, I would like to show how the case of autism can provide a unique model within which to explore social communication and its underlying biological and cognitive basis. Autism has been crucial to the insight that social communication is not a global entity, but that finer distinctions need to be made. I… Expand

View on SAGE

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed