1. Preface to special issue on language disorders

   • Paula Menyuk
   • Ronnie Wilbur

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 13

2. Dissociations between language and cognition: Cases and implications

   • Susan Curtiss

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 30

3. Language, social, and cognitive impairments in autism and severe mental retardation

   • Lorna Wing

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 44

4. On the nature of linguistic functioning in early infantile autism

   • Helen Tager-Flusberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 56

5. Developmental language disorders: Cognitive processes, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, and syntax

   • Richard F. Cromer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 74

6. Linguistic pragmatics and language intervention strategies

   • Jeffrey M. Seibert
   • D. Kimbrough Oller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 88

7. The effectiveness of operant language training with autistic children

   • Patricia A. Howlin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 105

8. Some perspectives on intervention strategies for persons with developmental disorders

   • David E. Yoder
   • Steven Calculator

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 123

9. Sign language and autism

   • John D. Bonvillian
   • Keith E. Nelson
   • Jane Milnes Rhyne

   OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 137

10. A strategy for research on the use of nonvocal systems of communication

    • Chris Kiernan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 151

11. Issues in the modification of american sign language for instructional purposes

    • Donald F. Moores

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 162

12. Announcements

    Announcement Pages: 163 - 164