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despite somewhat spared structural language development highfunctioning autism communicative comprehension deficits persist comprehension involves integration meaning global processing required weak central coherence theory suggests individuals autism biased process information locally cognitive style may impair comprehension particularly inferencing required however task performance may facilitated cognitive style local processing required current study designed examine extent weak central coherence cognitive style affects comprehension inferential processing spoken narratives children autism expected perform comparatively poorer inferences relating event scripts comparatively better inferences requiring deductive reasoning fourteen highfunctioning children autism recruited databases various autism organizations mean age 67 13 males one female matched receptive vocabulary picturecompletion task 14 typically developing children recruited local childcare centre mean age 410 seven males seven females children read short stories asked questions stories results indicated children autism less able make inferences based event scripts groups differ significantly inferences requiring deductive logical reasoning despite similar group performance questions relating main idea stories typically developing group good performance extracting main idea narratives significantly correlated performance comprehension tasks findings provide support weak central coherence theory demonstrate young children autism spontaneously integrate information order make script inferences typically developing children findings may help explain communicative problems young children autism applied intervention programme development research link weak central coherence cognitive style communicative comprehension autism valuable understanding comprehension deficits associated autism