Przyswajanie języka w zespole Aspergera

This paper, being an overview and a synthesis, is dedicated to language acquisition by children with Asperger’s, an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). According to the DSM-5, the latest classifi cation of mental disorders by the American Psychiatric Association, the Asperger syndrome should be discussed as a condition along a certain continuum of autistic disorders, or a special form of autism, rather than as a separate type of disorders. Children suffering from Asperger’s find it difficult to develop communication skills and, partly, age-appropriate language skills, which translates into disturbed language communication. The disturbances involve diffi culties in acquiring and applying social rules as well as specific narrow interests. The author, referring to the rich, mainly Polish-language, relevant literature presents the problems with acquiring linguistic knowledge by children with the Asperger syndrome at individual layers of linguistic, i.e. phonological, lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic, functioning