Wprowadzenie do prelingwistycznego rozwoju mowy dziecka z autyzmem

Abstract

The article discusses issues of the diagnosis, within linguistic, classification and descriptive systems, of communication of autistic people. The departure from symptom-based diagnosis in favour of the analysis of the occurrence of disorders at the pre-linguistic stage allows to, according to the author, search for the original problems of communication in the early stages of development. In referring to the theories of A. L Schuler, B. M. Prizant and A. M. Wetherby, the author presents the influence of disturbances in acquiring communication abilities within the aspect of development, which explains the different levels at which autistic children acquire these abilities in the course of the first 3 years of their lives.