{"id":172467,"date":"2023-09-20T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T04:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/language-acquisition-may-work-differently-in-people-with-autism"},"modified":"2023-09-20T23:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T04:24:18","slug":"language-acquisition-may-work-differently-in-people-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/language-acquisition-may-work-differently-in-people-with-autism","title":{"rendered":"Language acquisition may work differently in people with autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/language-acquisition-may-work-differently-in-people-with-autism3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re looking at a truck. You\u2019re with a young child and he follows your gaze. He\u2019s interested in the object you\u2019re looking at without you pointing at it. This is called joint attention and it is one of the primary ways children learn to connect words with objects and acquire language.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of joint attention is a core feature of autism. Until now, it was thought that stimulating joint attention in people with autism would help them express themselves verbally. But a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/meta-analysis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">meta-analysis<\/a> of 71 studies on autism challenges this assumption and suggests that people with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/autism+spectrum+disorders\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">autism spectrum disorders<\/a> may acquire language differently.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2014by Laurent Mottron, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and a psychiatrist at the H\u00f4pital en sant\u00e9 mentale Rivi\u00e8re-des-Prairies of the CIUSSS du Nord-de-l\u2019\u00cele-de-Montr\u00e9al; Mikhail Kissine, a professor of linguistics at Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles; and Ariane St-Denis, a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/medical+student\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical student<\/a> at McGill University\u2014is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0149763423003536\">published<\/a> in <i>Neuroscience &amp; Biobehavioral Reviews.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re looking at a truck. You\u2019re with a young child and he follows your gaze. He\u2019s interested in the object you\u2019re looking at without you pointing at it. This is called joint attention and it is one of the primary ways children learn to connect words with objects and acquire language. Lack of joint attention [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}