[PDF] Top 20 A pilot study of social cognition training for adults with high-functioning autism

... 1989), social skills groups (Ozonoff & Miller, 1995), and peer tutors (Blew, Schwartz, & Luce, ...specific social skills rather than addressing processes that might underlie social ...of ... See full document

... with high-functioning autism and to reveal the feasibility and potential efficacy of this ...the high level of satisfac- tion with the ... See full document

... generally high SES (Lim, Tsai, Bender, Chee, & Im, 2006; Longeneck et ...current study is internally valid in terms of the categorization of the BAP due to use of gender-normed cutoff scores (Hurley et ... See full document

... similar study, Bacon et al. (1998) found that both high and low functioning children with autism demonstrated lower rates of social referencing when presented with an orienting stimulus ... See full document

... cross-cultural study investigates wisdom in people with high functioning autism ...of autism are universal, as manifest in particular outward behaviours ...this study is to ... See full document

... original study, entitled [title], employed a survey methodology to profile the experiences, needs and aspirations of n=313 Australian adults with Asperger’s Disorder (AD) and high functioning ... See full document

... present study was intended as a first step towards addressing this gap in current ...work, social and community activities of a large sample (n=82) of adult females with high functioning ... See full document

... the autism-spectrum quotient (AQ) [41], empathy quotient (EQ) [42], Australian Scale of Asperger’s Syndrome [43], Social Responsiveness Scale [44], Bermond-Vorst Alex- ithymia Questionnaire [45], and Adult ... See full document

... current study aimed to explore the experiences of social care staff working with high functioning adults with ASD and ...daily functioning paired with CB result in similar ... See full document

... current study, the finding itself has important implications for educational ...behaviour/ cognition than feelings of knowing and judgements of ...of study time and self-paced study, which are ... See full document

... this study, we failed to find any evidence of atypical priors in the domain of social per- ception, or specifically, perceiving the direction of eye ...of social information is ...a ... See full document

... of autism, and the diagnostic tools and screening instruments used to detect it, are undeniably androcentric, being developed and standardised accord- ing to male ...developmental social and communication ... See full document

... in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has focussed on social and communicative impairments, whereas grammatical impairments are less ...This study delves into the syntactical knowledge and processing of ... See full document

... with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have become focus of research only recently, thus far there is little knowledge about the female phenotype of ASD in relation to social information ...This study ... See full document

... items of this subscale ―reduced social interest.‖ These researchers noted that one of the major reasons for refining the subscales of the original CSBQ was to make all of the subscales homogeneous to improve their ... See full document

... There were several limitations in this research. First, the num- ber of subjects was not large enough to generalize the results to other highly functioning patients with ASD. Second, the improvement in the correct ... See full document

... influence functioning of the social cognitive ...this study examined only specified regions of interest that have previously been implicated in social ...and autism; however, the lack ... See full document

... Next we will schedule an appointment to complete the cognitive testing. This session will also begin with a “warm up” period in which you get to know the person doing the testing. The testing will involve solving some ... See full document

... and social care needs of adults with high functioning autism spectrum dis- order (HFASD) is likely to result in greater unmet health needs, higher use of emergency departments at times ... See full document

... which is a ToM test consisting of seven scales (positive emo- tions, negative emotions, sincere, simple sarcasm, paradoxi- cal sarcasm, sarcasm enriched and lie), organized into three sections: ER, social ... See full document