What Is a Proposed Reason for Why Students with Autism

question 15

Multiple Choice

What is a proposed reason for why students with autism often have trouble with verb tenses and articles, even if they have syntactic awareness and are able to use the common grammatical morphemes?

• A) The students can memorize what words mean but may fail to use that vocabulary for a variety of functions
• B) The students are not able to duplicate appropriate intonation, pitch, and articulation patterns
• C) Referents change according to the speaker's point of view
• D) Lack of mastery of pragmatics

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Definitions:

Lateralization

The inclination for specific neural operations or mental activities to have a stronger presence in one side of the brain compared to the opposite side.

Right Cerebral Hemisphere

The half of the brain that coordinates tasks like spatial awareness, visual recognition, and processing of emotion and artistic ability.

Corpus Callosum

The large band of neural fibers connecting the two hemispheres of the brain, facilitating communication between the two sides.

Occipital Lobes

The part of the brain situated at the rear of the skull, mainly in charge of handling visual data.