Social Communication Disorder
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Social communication disorder is characterized by difficulties with the use of verbal and nonverbal language for social purposes. Primary difficulties are in social interaction, social cognition, and pragmatics.
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Wiki Number: 43–Social Communication Disorder
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Symptoms: not understandin g the semantic (meaning) or the pragmatic (socially-appropriate) aspects
Progression: not capable of understanding language that is not literal, concrete and repetitious
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Therapies: Unless the child is autistic, she or he usually outgrows not understanding language.
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What is Pragmatic Language?
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Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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The world-wide medical research
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- 'It depends on who I'm with': How young people with developmental language disorder describe their experiences of language and communication in schoolby Anna Ekström on January 27, 2023
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: The results from this study show that young people with DLD can have persisting problems related to language and communication in school, including educational, social and emotional dimensions. SLT services may therefore be needed throughout the school years to ensure that students with DLD receive adequate support. In addition, support that goes beyond language abilities and targets social, contextual and emotional aspects should be considered.
- Adaptive noise depression for functional brain network estimationby Di Ma on January 27, 2023
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one common psychiatric illness that manifests in neurological and developmental disorders, which can last throughout a person's life and cause challenges in social interaction, communication, and behavior. Since the standard ASD diagnosis is highly based on the symptoms of the disease, it is difficult to make an early diagnosis to take the best cure opportunity. Compared to the standard methods, functional brain network (FBN) could reveal the statistical...
- A scoping review of community-based post-opioid overdose intervention programs: implications of program structure and outcomesby Amelia Bailey on January 27, 2023
CONCLUSIONS: Future studies could benefit from exploration of service provision in rural areas, for family affected by overdose, and for minoritized populations. Community-based post-overdose interventions utilizing a law enforcement partnership are emergent with promising yet limited examples in empirical literature.
- Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with action-observation-execution on social interaction and communication in autism spectrum disorder: feasibility studyby Jirapimon Kaokhieo on January 26, 2023
CONCLUSION: Ten sessions of HF-rTMS combined with AOE could improve both the subitems of communication and daily living skills domain in children aged 7-12 years with ASD. Although it is still inconclusive, this behavioural improvement may be partly attributable to increased cortical activity, as evidenced by beta rhythms.