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Hsiao, Mei-Ni; Tseng, Wan-Ling; Huang, Hui-Yi; Gau, Susan Shur-Fen – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study examined the associations between children's and adolescents' autistic-like social deficits and school and social adjustment as well as the moderating roles of age and gender in these associations. The sample consisted of 1321 students (48.7% boys) in Grade 1 to Grade 8 from northern Taiwan. Children's and adolescents' autistic-like…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, Program Effectiveness, Adolescents
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Wang, Yifang; Su, Yanjie; Fang, Ping; Zhou, Qingxia – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Tager-Flusberg and Sullivan (2000) presented a cognitive model of theory of mind (ToM), in which they thought ToM included two components--a social-perceptual component and a social-cognitive component. Facial expression recognition (FER) is an ability tapping the social-perceptual component. Previous findings suggested that normal hearing…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Nonverbal Communication, Deafness, Language Aptitude
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Morton, Jane F.; Campbell, Jonathan M. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Authors examined the effects of information source on peers' cognitive and behavioral attitudes toward an unfamiliar child with autism. Children (N=296; M age=10.21 years) received information about an unfamiliar child with autism from one of the following sources: (a) videotape, (b) teacher, (c) hypothetical mother, (d) hypothetical father, or…
Descriptors: Autism, Information Sources, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Gender Differences