Asperger’s syndrome also has a ‘signature’ language profile. This can include impaired pragmatic language abilities (i.e. the ‘art’ of conversation) such as attentive listening, with a tendency to engage in monologues and a failure to follow conversational rules. There may be literal interpretations, with a tendency for the person to become greatly confused by idioms, figures of speech and sarcasm. There may also be unusual prosody: for example, a child may consistently use an accent based on the voice of a television character, or an adult may speak with an unusual tone, pitch and rhythm. All
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