The imaginative abilities of children on the autistic spectrum are reportedly impaired compared to typically developing children. This study explored computer mediated story construction in children with autism and typically developing peers. The purpose was to explore expressive writing ability, as a measure of imagination. Ten pairs of individually matched children (one typically developing a...

human shape. But upon the middle of the body a fire of coals was smouldering; the flesh had been burnt through. The man was dead, but the smoke of his torment mounted still, a black vapour." In detective fiction, W H Auden said, the corpse must shock "not only because it is a corpse, but also because, even for a corpse, it is shockingly out of place, as when a dog makes a mess on a drawing-room...

Abstract Nine characteristics of discontinuous agreement are shown to flow from a syntax that deals in whole phi structures and linearisation algorithm renders these when conditions converge. This approach is demonstrably superior reliance solely on syntax, morphology, or the lexicon, outperforming across range morphological syntactic data Afroasiatic languages those Australia Papua New Guinea.