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Language Skills in Autistic Children Surprise Scientists
Robert Stainton, professor at The University of Western Ontario, Jessica de Villiers, a clinical linguist at the University of British Columbia along with Peter Szatmari, a clinical psychiatrist at McMaster University, has found that many individuals with ASD do have "a rich array of pragmatic abilities."
A presentation given by de Villiers, a few years back, revealed that many individuals with ASD have significant difficulties with ’pragmatics’, where people with ASD often have difficulty using language appropriately in social situations.
However Stainton noticed less-than-obvious pragmatic abilities at work in de Villiers’ examples that led to further studies.
In the new study the team found that many speakers with ASD do not show the same difficulty with literal pragmatics. An example is the phrase, "I took the subway north" from a transcript of a conversation with a research participant with ASD.
The use of the word ’the’ could indicate there is only one subway in existence going north. ’The subway’ could also be referring to a subway car, a subway system or a subway tunnel.
Taking account of the context and the listener’s expectations, however, the individual using the phrase was able to convey the specific meaning he intended. That is, he used pragmatics effectively.
It provided valid evidences that ASD patients can use and understand pragmatics in cases of literal talk, as in the subway example.
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