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Block, Elisa; Farran, Emily K.; Van Herwegen, Jo – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The block design task (BDT) is a visuospatial measure that individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) perform poorly on. However, it is unclear what underlies their impaired performance. This study investigated whether poorer performance is a result of visuospatial difficulties, executive function (EF) difficulties, atypical looking strategies, or a…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Executive Function
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Calub, Catrina A.; Benyakorn, Songpoom; Sun, Shuai; Iosif, Ana-Maria; Boyle, Lauren H.; Solomon, Marjorie; Hessl, David; Schweitzer, Julie B. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
This pilot study sought to identify potential markers of improvement from pre-post treatment in response to computerized working memory (WM) training for youth (ages 8-18) with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and comorbid intellectual disability (ID) in a single arm, pre-post design. Participants included 26 children with ASD and 18 with comorbid…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Training, Youth, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Dunham, Kacie; Feldman, Jacob I.; Liu, Yupeng; Cassidy, Margaret; Conrad, Julie G.; Santapuram, Pooja; Suzman, Evan; Tu, Alexander; Butera, Iliza; Simon, David M.; Broderick, Neill; Wallace, Mark T.; Lewkowicz, David; Woynaroski, Tiffany G. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) display differences in multisensory function as quantified by several different measures. This study estimated the stability of variables derived from commonly used measures of multisensory function in school-aged children with ASD. Participants completed: a simultaneity judgment task for audiovisual…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Perceptual Impairments, Speech Communication