[PDF] Top 20 Prototype effects in high functioning children with autism

... Chapter 5 - When prototypes are not best and category membership is restricted: Judgements made by children with autism Abstract and Introduction 94 Experiment 5.1 97 Experiment 5.2 105 [r] ... See full document

... their high incidence, specificity and their presence along the life span, these sensory symptoms have become good candidates to be added to the nuclear characteristics that define this type of disorder [7] ...of ... See full document

... There are several potential limitations to this study. First, the stimuli in the KASLAT task consisted of visual sentences and pictures. When people communicate reciprocally, a vari- ety of verbal and non-verbal elements ... See full document

... ASC children (Kasari et ...typically, children respond to praise by looking at the praise giver, ASC children tend to turn away in response to praise, reflecting active avoidance to the facially ... See full document

... of children of normal intelligence with PDDs, we deem it rel- evant to also take into account research on the well-being of parents of children with other types of disorders, such as developmental ... See full document

... Academic Achievement of Children and Adolescents with High- Academic Achievement of Children and Adolescents with High- Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder with In-Depth Focus on Funct[r] ... See full document

... The differential effect of semantic relatedness on recognition and recall suggests that the conclusion made by Hermelin and O’Connor (1970) that children with autism fail to encode stimuli meaningfully may ... See full document

... in children with ASD and left and right hand similarity in typical ...in children with autism relative to typical children while our study did not demonstrate this result relative to typical ... See full document

... Permanent repository link: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/6784/ Link to published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.12.004 Copyright and reuse: City Research Onlin[r] ... See full document

... While our activation findings are largely consistent with previous studies, they are inconsistent with the findings from a recent fMRI study of ToM using verbally presented stories requiring drawing inferences with ASD ... See full document

... in children of normal intelligence and PDD, yet, there are still few studies which have given detailed char- acterization of insomnia in school-age children with AS or HFA ...daytime functioning of ... See full document

... Although the data obtained through our study group pro- vided important information in respect of the main purpose and ambit of our research, our study suffers from a number of limitations. One important limitation is ... See full document

... those children were significantly worse at identify- ing the tilt of unflanked Gabors (their average thresholds were ...developing children. Thus, while those ASD children might be techni- cally ... See full document

... There are currently no scales specifically designed to evaluate psychiatric comorbidity in persons with ASDs, and the studies that investigated comorbid disorders in AS/HFA either referred to the DSM-IV diagnostic cri- ... See full document

... of Autism Diagnostic Interview—Revised and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, which are standard instruments in the diagnostics of ASD in many ...with high-functioning ASD, and both indi- ... See full document

... Executive functioning covers a wide range of skills that are involved in dealing with novel ...executive functioning hypothesis offers possible explanations for the various impairments often associated with ... See full document

... girl are told an ice cream van will be in the park all day. The children go their separate ways. The boy talks to the ice cream van driver and finds out the van is headed to the church. The girl also finds out ... See full document

... 3 Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by qualitative impairments in social interaction (American Psychiatric Association [APA], ...daily functioning in individuals with ASD by them not being ... See full document

... was high or who had no siblings with disabilities, but was not effect- ive when the mother was heavily ...for children with stressed mothers or for lower DQ ...that children with HFA had more ... See full document

... both high and low functioning children with autism demonstrated lower rates of social referencing when presented with an orienting stimulus (a loud animal-like sound) than mentally retarded, ... See full document