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Silliman, Elaine R.; Diehl, Sylvia F.; Bahr, Ruth Huntley; Hnath-Chisolm, Theresa; Zenko, Catherine Bouchard; Friedman, Stephanie A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2003
This study investigated how 15 preadolescents and adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) performed on false belief tasks that included social inferencing of psychological states as well a logical inferencing of physical states. Unlike the control groups, the ASD group performed better on the social inferencing tasks and use of a prompt…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Beliefs, Cognitive Development
Fletcher, Kathryn L.; Huffman, Lisa F.; Bray, Norman W. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2003
Effects of type of prompt on the use of external strategies were examined with 272 children (ages 7-17) with or without mental retardation. A task requiring memory for object placement was performed under one of four conditions: no prompt, verbal prompt, physical prompt, verbal and physical prompt. Results suggested that strategy use by older…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development