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Early language delay and structural language deficits were less common in females. Our findings suggest that assessment of structural language skills should be included in the evaluation of children with suspected ASD.</jats:p>","journal":"Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders","year":2023,"id":619487,"datarank":0.7104297672591745,"base_score":4.736198448394496,"endowment":4.736198448394496,"self_citation_contribution":0.7104297672591745,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.7104297672591745,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":113,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1225293,"name":"Terje Nærland","orcid":"0000-0001-9175-4286","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1319308,"name":"Bernhard Weidle","orcid":"0000-0002-1822-7671","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1134839,"name":"Stian Lydersen","orcid":"0000-0001-6613-8596","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":52934,"name":"Ole A. 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