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Riches, N. G.; Loucas, T.; Baird, G.; Charman, T.; Simonoff, E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
According to the weak central coherence (CC) account individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exhibit enhanced local processing and weak part-whole integration. CC was investigated in the verbal domain. Adolescents, recruited using a 2 (ASD status) by 2 (language impairment status) design, completed an aural forced choice comprehension…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Syntax, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Harper-Hill, Keely; Copland, David; Arnott, Wendy – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
The provision of visual support to individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is widely recommended. We explored one mechanism underlying the use of visual supports: efficiency of language processing. Two groups of children, one with and one without an ASD, participated. The groups had comparable oral and written language skills and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Visual Stimuli, Language Processing
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Chita-Tegmark, Meia; Arunachalam, Sudha; Nelson, Charles A.; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
To explore how being at high risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), based on having an older sibling diagnosed with ASD, affects word comprehension and language processing speed, 18-, 24- and 36-month-old children, at high and low risk for ASD were tested in a cross-sectional study, on an eye gaze measure of receptive language that measured how…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Siblings, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders