Language and Communication Features of Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Literature Review

• Published in: Ankara üniversitesi eğitim bilimleri fakültesi özel eğitim dergisi Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 655 - 673
• Main Authors: Çabuk, Tuǧçe, Özdemir, Şevket, Töreti, Gökhan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Turkish
• Published: Ankara Ankara Universitesi 01.09.2022
• Subjects: Autism; Brain research; Cognition & reasoning; Communication; Dementia; Hallucinations; Language; Literature reviews; Morphology; Psychosis; Schizophrenia; Special education
• ISSN: 1304-7639; 2149-8261
• DOI: 10.21565/ozelegitimdereisi.857651

[...]it is known that there is no integrative model related to the mutual language characteristics and underlying neurogenetic factors covering both of these disorders. [...]this literature review aimed to reveal previous research reporting both diverging and converging language issues with regards to these populations. [...]environmental and genetic factors could be shared in SZ and ASD such as prenatal exposure to infection, parental age, prenatal stress and the genes including CNTNAP2 (seen as a marker in language disturbances) and NRXN1 (Barlati, 2016; Meyer et al., 2011). There is no integrative model related to the mutual language characteristics and underlying neural and genetic factors covering both of these disorders. [...]this literature review aims (i) to reveal and discuss previous research reporting both diverging and converging language issues with regards to these populations and (ii) help special education professionals about noticing the children who might present the feature of COS. [...]the professionals might refer these children for psychiatric assessment through which they can contribute to differential diagnosis along with the provision of appropriate intervention.