1. An introduction to communication in autism: Current findings and future directions (by Arciuli, Joanne); 2. Section 1: Symbolic communication; 3. Chapter 1. Prelinguistic communication (by Keen, Deb); 4. Chapter 2. Facilitating emergent verbal repertoires in individuals with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disorders: Insights from behaviour analysis (by May, Richard J.); 5. Section 2: Oral language; 6. Chapter 3. Echolalia and language development in children with autism (by Roberts, Jacqueline M.A.); 7. Chapter 4. Do autism spectrum disorders and specific language impairment have a shared aetiology?: A review of the evidence (by Taylor, Lauren J.); 8. Chapter 5. Prosody and autism (by Arciuli, Joanne); 9. Section 3: Literacy; 10. Chapter 6. Reading for sound and reading for meaning in autism: Frith and Snowling (1983) revisited (by Brock, Jon); 11. Chapter 7. Language and literacy subtypes in young children with a high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (by Jacobs, Diane); 12. Section 4: Complex language skills; 13. Chapter 8. The use of narrative in studying communication in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A review of methodologies and findings (by Stirling, Lesley); 14. Chapter 9. Using conversational structure as an interactional resource: Children with Asperger's syndrome and their conversational partners (by Rendle-Short, Johanna); 15. Section 5: Distal causes of language impairment; 16. Chapter 10. Atypical cerebral lateralisation and language impairment in autism: Is fetal testosterone the linking mechanism? (by Hollier, Lauren P.); 17. Index
