ArticleBehavior genetics2010
Overlaps between autism and language impairment: phenomimicry or shared etiology?
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- Structural language profiles in children with autism spectrum disorder and developmental language disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Language impairment and dyslexia genes influence language skills in children with autism spectrum disorders.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2015Pooled it
- Preserved and non-preserved social attentional processes in Autism and developmental language disorder at early ages.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Ins and Outs of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Intervention in Promoting Social Communicative Abilities and Theory of Mind in Children and Adolescents with ASD: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Comprehension of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Plus Language Impairment.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- *Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia.Psychological science · 2025Article
- Exploring Narrative Ability in Greek-Speaking Children with High-Functioning ASD: Associations with Memory and Attention.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Using explainable machine learning and eye-tracking for diagnosing autism spectrum and developmental language disorders in social attention tasks.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Approach To Families Of Children With Developmental Language Disorder From A Neurodevelopmental Perspective.Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Verbal Responsiveness in Parents of Toddlers With and Without Autism During a Home Observation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Atypical brain lateralization for speech processing at the sublexical level in autistic children revealed by fNIRS.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Receptive language and receptive-expressive discrepancy in minimally verbal autistic children and adolescents.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): similarities in pragmatic language abilities. A systematic review.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Review
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- Language in autism: domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Review
- A Preliminary Examination of the Impact of Working Memory Training on Syntax and Processing Speed in Children with ASD.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Comparing Early Pragmatics in Typically Developing Children and Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Early Neuro-Psychomotor Therapy Intervention for Theory of Mind and Emotion Recognition in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Pilot Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Can EEG Correlates Predict Treatment Efficacy in Children with Overlapping ASD and SLI Symptoms: A Case Report.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Traditionally, autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and specific language impairment (SLI) are regarded as distinct conditions with separate etiologies. Yet these disorders co-occur at above chance levels, suggesting shared etiology. Simulations, however, show that additive pleiotropic genes cannot account for observed rates of language impairment in relatives, which are higher for probands with SLI than for those with ASD + language impairment. An alternative account is in terms of 'phenomimicry', i.e., language impairment in comorbid cases may be a consequence of ASD risk factors, and different from that seen in SLI. However, this cannot explain why molecular genetic studies have found a common risk genotype for ASD and SLI. This paper explores whether nonadditive genetic influences could account for both family and molecular findings. A modified simulation involving G x G interactions obtained levels of comorbidity and rates of impairment in relatives more consistent with observed values. The simulations further suggest that the shape of distributions of phenotypic trait scores for different genotypes may provide evidence of whether a gene is involved in epistasis.
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