Language and Communication Difficulties in Autism

This report discusses the body structure and impairments, age of onset, causes, language and communication characteristics, difficulties in various areas, assessment methods, associated conditions, intervention options, and strategies for individuals with autism.

Language and Communication Difficulties
in Autism

Contents
INTORDUCTION.......................................................................................................................................4
SECTION A................................................................................................................................................4
Body structure and impairments..............................................................................................................4
Age of onset............................................................................................................................................4
Causes of autism......................................................................................................................................5
Language and Communication characteristics in the interrelated areas...................................................6
Language and communication difficulties in this disorder in various areas.............................................6
Methods and types of assessments will you use to assess language in individuals..................................8
Challenging issues in assessing this population.......................................................................................9
SECTION B................................................................................................................................................9
Associated conditions or disabilities present in this group or individual.................................................9
Range of intervention options available to address the language and communication difficulties.............10
Strategies utilize to implement..............................................................................................................10
Role of communication partner which support the communication for group or individual..................11
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................12

INTORDUCTION
Autism is spectrum disorder that are generally present in children. This disorder will
increase the difficultly in communication and understand the word. Children faced many
problem like written language and spoken. Autism spectrum disorders from other
neurodevelopmental disabilities. This report will discuss about the body structure, causes of
autism, language and communication difficulties in different areas etc. this assignment will
describe the social implication disorder and that affect the individual and community or family
etc. this report will discuss about the different range of intervention available which helps for
addressing the communication and language difficulties. There are different associated
disabilities and conditions preened in the group as well as individual.
SECTION A
Body structure and impairments
Autism spectrum disorder is a disability that impact on the body of children and their day
to day life functionality. This disordered can affect the functionality of body because they have
inability to understand the need of another, this disorder will be controlled by using right
treatment. Autism children has poor ability, weak mental conditions etc. this is the fastest rising
developmental disorder in the world, In US, there are large number of disordered record in this
country. This is present in both the families as well as societies (Williams & Hutchings et.al., 2017 ).
Autism can considered as psychological and neurological disorder, this disease affecting the
entire brain system and multiple system of body parts. There are important system that affect the
metabolic such as mitochondrial, neurological and immunological etc. this is the biological
disorder in body that has different changes occurred in body. Some of children’s have some
immune disorders while they appear and converted into the healthy. Autism signs shows in birth
of children’s.
Age of onset
The age of onset autism is basically describe in two different paten’s first is onset of
prototype and another children’s shows abnormalities. The most common disorder and
symptoms recognized at the age of birth. It is delayed the communication and speech
development. After growing the body, it is suggested that communication delays and language

abnormalities. This is typically diagnosis with the help of treatment (Pouliot & Resti et.al., 2017).
The behavior of young and autism children’s differ from other children because they have
communication delayed and orienting name, joint attentions etc. According to survey, it can be
determine that at the age of initially first two year, children’s are developing their ability and
another year, they can loss their skills and knowledge. These are main symptoms of autism.
Despite that the progression has been made in last century so it describing the autism symptoms
and emerges early life of children’s. According to evidence, there are number of difficulties
increase in the life of children. This is the complex process for handle the situation of disorder.
Causes of autism
There are multiple causes of autism and it can appear to be in number of different area
and circumstances such as genetic factors, environmental and biological etc. it can be believe
that it is the major role plays in the development of autism. It is found that twins children has
more chances and affected on their genetically conditions, in family, one autistic child so the
chances increase that another children may or May not be autistic (Chan & Fugard, 2018).
Sometimes, relatives and parents of autistic child have mild social impairments. It is difficult for
protecting towards the autism because it based on inherit and genetic. According to the research,
it can found that some emotional disorder is cause of autism in families. There are following
causes of autistic children:
 Rubella present in pregnant women
 Fragile x syndrome
 Tuberous sclerosis
 Encephalitis
These are important causes that could be identified according to the research for several years.
For solving the problem of autism, mercury based treatment used in rubella vaccine that help for
protecting the children before birth (Koegel & Ashbaugh, 2017). Mercury is not found for longer
term in Australia that’s why some parents are concern about the vaccinations and their
treatments.
The another causes of autism are environmental toxins and also including the pesticides,
metals like mercury, this is the major impact on the autistic children’s because it increase the risk
for developing of these toxins.

Language and Communication characteristics in the interrelated areas
Communication and language impairment is major three different areas used for
determine the autism such as diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Language and
communication impairment can be characterized with the help of lack communicative behavior
and gesture, spoken language improvement and development etc. there are various type of
challenges faced in autism diseases. It is important for family member to understand the
difficulties of children and uses simple language so that they easily understand and interpreted.
In this way, children are developing their skills of communication as well as gesture or behavior
towards their attitudes. It can used different platform such as gestalt and unanalyzed phrases
video scripts, animations, dialog etc. there are effective concept that help for easily provide the
information and building the understanding towards the world. The autism can be classified in
several types of developmental disorder (Bacon & Pierce et.al., 2018)
Language and communication disorder are critically understand the ASD. It is modified to the
symptoms by integrating with the communication impairment. This is the issue which is difficult
for individual with the ASD. Communication and language are both occurred such as verbal and
non-verbal etc. it is social spectrum across the world, children are not behaving like normal
person and cannot speak in proper manner. Autistic children having inability to imagine the
world and assume in effective manner.
Language and communication difficulties in this disorder in various areas
Speech language problem is the most common in the childhood disabilities this problem affect
the preschool children’s. Untreated language problem are significantly change the behaviour of
person. They also face challenges such as mental problem, reading difficulties, failure in exams
etc. sometimes, parents also dropout their children in the schools but this is not the correct
solution for preventing the autism. Most of people uses different and effective communication
medium includes animation technique and using images to provide the information to the
children’s.
Conditions and causes Receptive communication
and speech problems
Expressive communication
problem and issues
Psychosocial risk , neglect
and abuse
Less expressive gesture in
terms of conversations and

Autism spectrum disorder Very difficult for analysing
the meaning and situations. It
is difficult for understanding
the processing, information,
integrating and
misinterpretation of society
and social uses.
speech, less ideas and discuss
about feelings to others.
Variance in speech
production and differ
functionality in nonverbal
communication, use the
simple language according to
social situations because it is
more challenging for
producing language in
different forms sounds. Using
specific sentence and their
structure.
Language is source for producing sound in the form of words in the form of verbal and non-
verbal language. There are some important concept that make easier for communicating with
one person to another.
Grammar- Grammar is concept of language and it is base of language to understand their
different number of concepts and rules. All language based on grammar(Foss‐Feig & Stone et.al.,
2017). Speaker of language have power to understand the word formations and their proper
meaning in proper manner. There are various phrases which help for constructing the correct
sentence and provide the information their autistic child.
Syntax- this is the systematic sentence that applicable different phrases at the right place. They
produce right meaning for communication, syntax is required for making correct sentence. All
language are depended upon the syntax which is generating the better sentence.

Semantics and Pragmatics- Semantics are generally based on the sentence meaning. It is also
connect with the real world object or concept. Pragmatics is based on understand the context of
sentence contribute towards its meaning.
Pre- Linguistics- language is the important part of human which helps for communication and it
cover the entire field of study. It is objective way to use scientific method for acquiring all the
theories related languages. There are following important branches which useful for
understanding the actual meaning for language in the form of psychological.
Phonology- Phonology is the phonemes that provide the specific speech sound of particular
language. This is cover the entire sounds of human and produced in the form language.
Morphology- it is a study about the words that is some specific meaning of language such as
suffixes and prefixes. It is used for making an effective sentence that is same words applicable
but their meaning is different.
Methods and types of assessments will you use to assess language in individuals
Screening- Screening is the spoken language which is organize when the language
disorder is suspected. This gathering information related the parents and teacher which is
concern about the children language and their skills. Administering formal screening assessment
is based on the normative data.
Comprehensive Assessment- individual is having language impairment which is based on
screening such as comprehensive, this is the most appropriate assessment with the help of speech
language. Assessment language should be based on the skill and cultural relevant and also
involve the collaborative efforts of teacher, classroom and other professionals which are needed.
Literacy assessment is also include comprehensive assessment in the communication and
language disorders because it is useful for establishing the best connection between the written
and spoken language. This assessment is depend upon the age of child and development stage of
language (Hughes & Henderson, 2017)
Dynamic assessment- it is the method which is applicable in individual to test their skill
and knowledge. Dynamic assessment helps for distinguish among the language and language
disorder which is used for increasing the language standardized and sampling.

Challenging issues in assessing this population
There are some important challenging issues faced by children and their families because
autism is a complex diseases which is based on long terms. Sometimes, it affecting the entire
immune system of children. In Australia, there are large number of population that faced many
issues regarding the autism (Lumbreras & Ariel etr.al., 2018). According to calculation, it is found
that there are 20% children faced the disease of autism because of their environment and generic
system.
Autism is the process that affecting the mental health of children and this is also major
challenging issues faced by population.
Language problem and communication problem are major issues that faced by population.
Communication problem is based on spoken and child is not understand the exact meaning for
language and sentence.
Autistic child has less skill to express their feeling to another person. They also faced the body
structure disorder and their functionality.
According to situation, they can be change their mood and feeling towards the particular subject.
SECTION B
Associated conditions or disabilities present in this group or individual
Disabilities is term which help for judgment of particular significantly impairment. This
is also define the individual function of each age group. Each and every children has multiple
disabilities according to the physical appearances and their mental ability. These are depend on
the conditions and disorder.
Autistic disorder- autistic disorder is generally based on the communication and language delays
and faced many challenging issues regarding the behavior and interests. This disorder is
generally present in the age of 1- 10 year. They have intellectual disability.
Pervasive development disorder- This is all about to meet the symptoms and criteria of autism
but this is not all about the diagnosed with PDD. This is the middle symptoms such as autistic
disorder and disability (Baron‐Cohen, 2017)

Asperger syndrome- this is based on the unusual behavior and interest, this disorder is not based
on the language and communication problem. Asperger syndrome usually present in younger
children that present only middle symptoms of autistics.
Range of intervention options available to address the language and communication difficulties
Intervention is the technique which is concern about increasing the frequency and
communication functions. There are various available evidence represent the highly structured
behavior method for convincing the children towards the positive ways. There are following
range of autism discuss:
Behavioral intervention- this approach will help for children to learn the behavior and their
skills. This technology uses different tool to provide the guidelines and encouraging towards the
appropriate behavior.
Developmental intervention- this approach is the best strategy which is used in autism spectrum
disorder. It also help for positive relationship with other people (Thurman & Abbeduto et.al., 2017)
They mainly focus on their communication skill for every day and develop their daily living
conversations.
Combined intervention- Combine intervention is the most effective concept that bring together
their characteristics of different good intervention.
Family based intervention- Family based approach is the best strategy which help for children to
provide the ideas about the family involvement towards the members and also meet the
development needs of children.
Strategies utilize to implement
Developmentally based and social pragmatic strategies are important for increase the skill of
autistic children. This approach is based on the assumptions for develop language and
communication in the best ways. Sometimes, children does not speak in proper manner so it is
required for encouraging to use simple sentence (Thurman & Abbeduto et.al., 2017). Afterwards,
they communicate to get the intention across in order to increase their communication ability in
front of other people.
 First of all it is important for children to choose the course according to their interest and
using different materials.

 It can used sequence of communication language and teacher will provide the guideline
to identifying the intervention objectives and their goals.
 Providing the learning opportunity that naturally build their skill and abilities to interact
with the other people daily routine helps for regularity practices to understand the
sentences.
The development and individual are interrelated to each other because both the aim to develop a
symbolic and interactive communication skills which shared the affect.
Role of communication partner which support the communication for group or individual
Communication role of partner is important for autistic children because a partner will support to
use new technique for improve the skills and knowledge of child. (Thurman& Abbeduto et.al.,
2017) . Families and friends are important part of life which is required to build the confidence
level of autistic children’s.
There are important role playing in the individual life:
Parents and friends are supporting to improve their capability and they also uses different
techniques and approach to provide guidelines such as video scripting, animations, images etc.
there are essential for support the autistic child.
They also providing the suggestion and direction related the main ideas and drawing which more
preferable for understanding.
CONCLUSION
As per discuss, it concludes that autism is a complex diseases that present in various age
group. It also discuss about the causes, onset of ages in the autism etc. there are difficult problem
faced such as language and communication problems in this disorder. It also conclude different
methods which help for improving their ability and skill towards the communication, speech and
language.

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