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Shah, A.; Frith, U. – Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1983
Explores the relationship between visuo-spatial skills and the ability to attend to perceptual detail in 20 autistic, 20 normal, and 20 mildly retarded children of comparable mental age. Test material from the Children's Embedded Figures Test was used. Autistic children, using qualitatively different strategies, were significantly more competent…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
