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ajssms-542	Dansereau, Francesca; Flanagan, Tara	Online Pragmatic Language Use in Asperger Syndrome and Learning Disability Discussion Forums	2019	6	.pdf	application/pdf	5550	275	45	1 © 2019 by the authors; licensee Asian Online Journal Publishing Group Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies Vol. 6, No. 1, 1-6, 2019 ISSN(E) 2313-7401/ ISSN(P) 2518-0096 DOI: 10.20448/journal.500.2019.61.1.6 © 2019 by the authors; licensee Asian Online Journal Publishing Group Online Pragmatic Language Use in Asperger Syndrome and Learning Disability Discussion Forums Francesca Dansereau1 Tara Flanagan2 ( Corresponding Author) 1,2Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Canada Abstract Research has indicated that self-expression for individuals on the autism spectrum may be facilitated through written language by promoting a more flexible environment within which to express beliefs, opinions, ideologies and expectations—in essence, creating a safe place for communication. In their research, Schairer and Nelson (1996) found that the written modality increases the communication capabilities for individuals who are on the autism spectrum since the sentence length was significantly higher in the written modality even though the number of utterances was greater in the oral modality; meaning that spoken language occurs more rapidly than written language.	cache/ajssms-542.pdf	txt/ajssms-542.txt