significant developmental delay. It is also proposed that the postulated compensation may not completely facilitate all aspects of normal language development, and may result in the several, readily identifiable, higher level differences of language use observed in subjects with ASP. Examples include excessive pedantic formality, verbosity, literal interpretation devoid of nuance and prosodic deficiency, to name a few [63]. The final two factors chosen, Factors 33 and 40, show a pattern of reduced coherence loadings in the ASP group that may correspond to differences in visual-spatial functioning and right hemispheric characteristics that have been described as part of the lack of social nuance and special kind of ‘oblivious to context’ personality characteristics observed in individuals with ASP [64,65].
