Dr. Kim Cornish – Cornish Research Team, McGill University

Language Disorders - Research Project

Closer delineation of the social and language differences in children with autism and children with pragmatic language disorders.

This study focuses on the domain of language and social cognition and charts the developmental trajectories of two known disorders that appear to share strong commonalities in terms of their atypical language profile: children with autism and children with pragmatic language impairment (PLI).