Autism and written narrative: discourse analysis and the characterisation of higher level language disorder phenotypes

这项工作有助于国家研究优先目标“健康的生活开始”，促进我们对自闭症语言障碍的理解。预计它将有利于儿童，他们的家庭和社区进一步发展必要的基础研究，以制定新的绩效衡量标准，用于更好地评估语言障碍儿童，并设计和定向干预方案。这项工作在自闭症儿童的自然语言方面处于国际领先地位。因此，它将提高澳大利亚在这一研究领域的形象。

This work contributes to the national research priority goal 'A healthy start to life', in advancing our understanding of the language disorder of autism. It is expected to benefit the children, their families and the community in furthering the basic research necessary for the development of new measures of performance, of use in the better assessment of children with language disorders and in the design and targeting of intervention programs. This work is cutting edge internationally in the approach it takes to the naturalistic language of children with autism. Hence it will raise the profile of Australia in this research domain.