As social beings, communication is imperative thus, its study must be related to theories of social structure, social behavior, and human interaction. Successful communication can deepen and enrich relationships. This will be of great help to understand better the people and circumstances day by day. However, communication is quite challenging for those individuals who are affected by cognitive communicative disorders including people with autism spectrum disorders. This study aims to describe the communication skills of the child with ASD at home and in school and identify the different communication strategies and interventions employed to help the child improve his communication skills. The current research is a case study of an eight-year-old child with ASD, in addition to the participants involved his caregivers such as his parents, special education teacher, and occupational therapist. The study shows that the child has difficulty articulating phrases and sentences that are common in autistic childrens verbal repertoire: lexical, grammatical, morphological, and syntactic impairments that lead to a failure in the communicative task. The analysis of the data indicates that patients with ASD suffer also from different extra-linguistic problems which can be diminished through successful social interaction and effective therapeutic interventions.

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