caa a22 4500 386339430 CHVBK 20180307111744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954579400000407 doi S0954579400000407 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954579400000407 Autism and ostensive communication: The relevance of metarepresentation [Elektronische Daten] Recent empirical and theoretical work on both normal and pathological development has led to the formulation of the metarepresentational conjecture for autism. This account of autistic development links the core impairments in imaginative abilities, communicative skills, and social competence to dysfunction of a single set of underlying cognitive mechanisms. In this context, Mundy and Sigman (1989) argue that the impairment of early gestural communication in autism cannot be accounted for by the metarepresentational theory. On the contrary, this early communication impairment in autism is highly consistent with a faulty theory-of-mind module. In normal development, this module is available from around the first year to handle estensive communication - shared pretense being a prime, though slightly later, example. We briefly consider the role in communication of perceptual processes that may trigger metarepresentation. This early theory-of-mind module, with its metarepresentational processes, provides the specific developmental basis for later versions of the child's theory of mind. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Leslie Alan M. MRC Cognitive Development Unit, University College London Happé Francesca MRC Cognitive Development Unit, University College London Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/3(1989-07), 205-212 0954-5794 1:3<205 1989 1 DPP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000407 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000407 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Leslie Alan M. MRC Cognitive Development Unit, University College London NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Happé Francesca MRC Cognitive Development Unit, University College London NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/3(1989-07), 205-212 0954-5794 1:3<205 1989 1 DPP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge