ABSTRACT
Language skills improve over time and problems are overcome. For adults with AS the language difficulties are not immediately obvious. Communication requires an understanding of non-verbal behaviour, the hidden meaning behind words and reading between the lines. Professionals refer to social use of language as 'pragmatics'. Communication requires at basic level at least two people, a message to communicate, ability to communicate and ability to check that this message has been successfully received. A tendency to interrupt is often due to person having difficulty identifying cues of when to start talking such as a momentary pause or other person's body language. For some people, their speech is slightly too loud or has a high-pitched or nasal quality and does not convey the amount of social and emotional information that enrich their language. Some children with AS have had training and advice from speech and language therapists on how to improve their prosody by using kind of techniques that actors use.
