Social and Communicative Functioning in Populations with Intellectual Disability: Rethinking Measurement
Front Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter One: The interaction between social and communication skills in individuals with intellectual disability -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The interdependence between social interaction and communication -- 2.1 What are social and communication skills? -- 2.2 Theoretical framework from neurotypical development: Social information processing -- 2.3 Applications to ID: Developmental cascades -- 3 Social cognition: Examples from development and approaches to assessment -- 3.1 Joint attention -- 3.1.1 Defining joint attention through assessment -- 3.1.2 Implications for research on ID -- 3.2 Theory of mind and perspective-taking -- 3.2.1 Defining theory of mind through assessment -- 3.2.2 Implications for research on ID -- 3.3 Pragmatic language -- 3.3.1 Defining pragmatic language through assessment -- 3.3.2 Implications for research on ID -- 4 Broader measures of social and communicative functioning -- 4.1 Implications for research on ID -- 5 Recommendations for researchers: Challenges and opportunities -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Two: Novel approaches for characterizing social communication and language development of young children with neurogenetic syndromesSocial communication and language development -- 1 The trajectory of communication development -- 2 Communication development in neurogenetic syndrome populations -- 3 The importance of appropriate communication assessment tools -- 4 Limitations of existing communication assessment tools -- 5 Advancing communication assessment for young children with neurogenetic syndromes -- 6 Novel approaches for adapting existing communication assessment tools -- 7 Novel communication assessment methods-remote naturalistic assessment -- 7.1 Remote assessments -- 7.2 Naturalistic assessments.