The impact of multilingualism on autistic children's development is not well understood

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Sourced from the conclusions and inline gaps and stated research gap of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 1968 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 315 times in total.

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• Social Communication Difficulties in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD Level 1): The Mediating Role of Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome (2026) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi

  While core autism traits remain Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders1 3the primary predictors of social difficulties, these findings underscore the potential clinical relevance of disruptions in cognitive continuity and internal attentional shifts— symptoms that have often been underrecognized in autism research.

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  Keywords: autism core traits remain journal developmental disorders primary predictors social difficulties underscore potential clinical relevance
• CONCEPTS OF AUTISM: A REVIEW OF RESEARCH* (1968) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · cited 315× · doi

  Thirdly, it remains to be explained why it is that only some children with these defects in the perception of sounds become autistic. To what extent the differences between the type of language abnormality found in autism and in the uncomphcated developmental disorders of language (noted above) are relevant, remains unknown. The nature of the basic language abnormality remains unknown, and the suggestions as to how social withdrawal and other symptoms develop as a response to failure in the comprehension of sounds are speculative. The importance of genetic factors remains unknown. Also, there is insufficient evidence to decide the relative importance of factors in the child and in his environment in the genesis of social withdrawal.

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  Keywords: remains language unknown sounds abnormality social withdrawal importance factors thirdly explained children defects perception become
• Multilingual exposure and lexical–executive abilities underlying verbal fluency: A study of children with and without autism (2026) · Bilingualism: Language and Cognition · doi

  The impact of multilingualism on autistic children's development is not well understood. There is a lack of studies investigating the relationship between multilingualism and verbal fluency in autistic children. The paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the effect of multilingualism on lexical-semantic abilities in autistic children.

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  Keywords: impact multilingualism autistic children development well understood there

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