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Delage, Hélène; Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Stanford, Emily; Durrleman, Stephanie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
In addition to deficits in pragmatics, children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have weaknesses in complex syntax and working memory (WM). These two deficits may be closely related. Previous work investigated the effects of WM training in developmental language disorders and showed significant improvement in both WM and syntax. The current…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Syntax, Cognitive Processes, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Lind, Sophie E.; Bowler, Dermot M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2009
This study aimed to test the hypothesis that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) use their knowledge of complement syntax as a means of "hacking out" solutions to false belief tasks, despite lacking a representational theory of mind (ToM). Participants completed a "memory for complements" task, a measure of receptive vocabulary, and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Autism, Correlation, Hypothesis Testing