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| Courtenay Frazier NorburySummaryAffiliation: Royal Holloway Country: UK Publications
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Difference or disorder? Cultural issues in understanding neurodevelopmental disordersCourtenay Frazier Norbury
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX
Dev Psychol 49:45-58. 2013..Our review synthesizes clinical, cultural, and theoretical work in this area, highlighting potential universals of disorder and concluding with recommendations for future research and practice...- Sound before meaning: word learning in autistic disordersCourtenay Frazier Norbury
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
Neuropsychologia 48:4012-9. 2010..These results provide unique evidence of qualitative differences in word learning and consolidation and elucidate the different mechanisms underlying the unusual nature of autistic language... - Eye-movement patterns are associated with communicative competence in autistic spectrum disordersCourtenay Frazier Norbury
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:834-42. 2009..However, these studies have not distinguished different cognitive phenotypes... 
Executive functions in children with communication impairments, in relation to autistic symptomatology. 2: Response inhibitionDorothy V M Bishop
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Autism 9:29-43. 2005..Reliance on control groups matched solely on vocabulary level or nonverbal mental age may obscure the important role played by language skills in executive functions...- Factors supporting idiom comprehension in children with communication disordersCourtenay Frazier Norbury
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
J Speech Lang Hear Res 47:1179-93. 2004..These findings are discussed in relation to theories of idiom acquisition and contextual processing in autism... - Executive functions in children with communication impairments, in relation to autistic symptomatology. 1: GenerativityDorothy V M Bishop
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Autism 9:7-27. 2005..It is often assumed that pragmatic difficulties are caused by limitations of social cognition. This study suggests that difficulties in generating relevant ideas can be another cause of autistic-like communicative abnormalities... - Barking up the wrong tree? Lexical ambiguity resolution in children with language impairments and autistic spectrum disordersCourtenay Frazier Norbury
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
J Exp Child Psychol 90:142-71. 2005..These findings challenge the assumptions of weak central coherence theory and demonstrate the need for stringent language controls in the study of autistic cognition... - High heritability of speech and language impairments in 6-year-old twins demonstrated using parent and teacher reportDorothy V M Bishop
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Behav Genet 36:173-84. 2006..This study shows that there are strong genetic influences on both structural and pragmatic language impairments in children, and these can be detected using a simple checklist completed by parents or teachers... - Exploring the borderlands of autistic disorder and specific language impairment: a study using standardised diagnostic instrumentsDorothy V M Bishop
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 43:917-29. 2002.... - Inferential processing and story recall in children with communication problems: a comparison of specific language impairment, pragmatic language impairment and high-functioning autismCourtenay Frazier Norbury
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Int J Lang Commun Disord 37:227-51. 2002..It is concluded that comprehension aids recall by enabling the listener to build a more stable mental representation of the story. The pragmatic deficits seen in autism compromise this process... - Using nonword repetition to distinguish genetic and environmental influences on early literacy development: a study of 6-year-old twinsDorothy V M Bishop
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 129:94-6. 2004..79 and the variance due to shared environment was zero. Future studies of genetics of reading development should treat those with poor nonword repetition skills as a separate subgroup... - Using a parental checklist to identify diagnostic groups in children with communication impairment: a validation of the Children's Communication Checklist--2Courtenay Frazier Norbury
Oxford Study of Children s Communication Impairments, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Int J Lang Commun Disord 39:345-64. 2004..Two validation studies were conducted with different populations of children with language and communication impairments...