Dr Candice Cheung Discovers a Key Factor Impeding the Communication of Children with Autism

1 Apr 2019

News Faculty of Humanities

Dr Candice Cheung from the Faculty of Humanities was invited by PolyU Milestones to talk about her findings regarding the communication difficulties of children with autism in the March 2019 issue. Dr Cheung has found evidence of a key factor impeding the communication of children with autism – a deficit in their ability to comprehend presupposed information from received information during conversations. The research finding opens up an important pathway for future studies of the same category.

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