It's like the part of the brain that's responsible for language learning is only around early in development and if you don't get your language by then it'll just run out.

就好像负责语言学习的大脑区域,只是在发展的早期比较活跃,如果你没有在这个时候获得语言,那你就没有机会了

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While a study is currently in progress at this point in time with the same research group linked below, specific to those with autism spectrum disorders, the linked research suggests that language development delays in the general population are associated with high levels of prenatal testosterone among males but high levels of prenatal testosterone among females provides a protective effect for language development.

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Ruby has been gaining traction as a language for serious development.

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And also potentially associated with other problems of social communication to this point, but it does become a lower variable of potential contribution of effect with the more restrictive criteria of the DSM5, and as always less of a potential contributing factor with the Gillberg Criteria that makes a mandatory requirement of criteria for motor development and language impairments.

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