I made some remarks about language the other day and this article fits into that same picture as an outline how how children learn such varied things as language and social skills through pattern recognition. The article calls this 'statistical learning', which isn't really what I'd call it, though I see why they would. And it suggests "autistic children may have difficulties with statistical learning," something I can't comment on at all, because I have no expertise whatsoever in the causes of autism. But focusing on improving general pattern recognition skills at an early age seems like a good idea to me; this forms the basis for what I have elsewhere called the critical literacies.
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