Autism, communication, and agency (2021)

Vikram Jaswal is Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. His research has addressed a range of topics in cognitive, language, and social development. The focus of his current work is communication and social interaction in autism, inspired and informed by the lived experiences of autistic children and adults and their families.

[dimensiomat]

I find it absurd that a scientific community would start at the assumption that a communication difference equals an understanding difference rather than assuming that it does not in all cases. Wouldn't ethics demand to assume normal cognition until disproven. The case can be made that typical neurological motor connection can not be made easily, but of course this would not include cognition. I thought this was already a standard assumption since it has been proven that late speaking people have normal cognition levels. I find it rather sad that this seems to not be the case.

[Desertphile]

I observe a few unevidenced assertion in the paper that demonstrates your conclusions are false. I presume this is why the paper was not peer-reviewed, nor published in a legitimate and relevant science journal (the _Nature_ subsidiary SCIENTIFIC REPORTS is not a science journal): you knew and you know the paper cannot pass critical analysis. If the paper's conclusions were to be demonstrated correct, it would be the first one in history to show agency in FC.