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Yicheng Rong – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
The present study aimed to examine whether Mandarin-speaking children on the autism spectrum showed differences in comprehending spatial demonstratives ("this" and "that", and "here" and "there"), as compared to typically developing (TD) children. Another aim of this study was to investigate the roles of…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Spatial Ability, Young Children
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Kathryn E. Prescott; Kimberly Crespo; Susan Ellis Weismer – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
"Purpose:" ASD is associated with relative strengths in the visuospatial domain but varying abilities in the linguistic domain. Previous studies suggest parallels between spatial language and spatial cognition in older autistic individuals, but no research to date has examined this relationship in young autistic children. Therefore, the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Ability
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Isaac N. Treves; Jonathan Cannon; Eren Shin; Cindy E. Li; Lindsay Bungert; Amanda O'Brien; Annie Cardinaux; Pawan Sinha; John D. E. Gabrieli – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Some theories have proposed that autistic individuals have difficulty learning predictive relationships. We tested this hypothesis using a serial reaction time task in which participants learned to predict the locations of a repeating sequence of target locations. We conducted a large-sample online study with 61 autistic and 71 neurotypical…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Learning Processes, Visual Perception