ellis,

Thanks for the welcome!

Just to clarify, I did not talk of attention seeking, only of attention giving.The point being that it may simply "social therapy" which is operating with autistics rather than the specifics of behaviourist theory...hence my parallel reference to priests versus psychoanalysts. Also Chomsky carefully avoided any involvement in language performance, and talked only of "competence". He was tying to encapsulate the universal structure common to all languages which might shed light on "common brain wiring". ( I seem to remember that original research was funded by AI/military sources)

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