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Lucas, Rebecca; Thomas, Louisa; Norbury, Courtenay Frazier – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
This study investigated whether children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can learn vocabulary from linguistic context. Thirty-five children with ASD (18 with age-appropriate structural language; 17 with language impairment [ALI]) and 29 typically developing peers were taught 20 Science words. Half were presented in linguistic context from…
Descriptors: Autism, Vocabulary Development, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Impairments
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Kourkoulou, Anastasia; Leekam, Susan R.; Findlay, John M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Although previous research has reported impairments in implicit learning in individuals with ASD, research using one implicit learning paradigm, the contextual cueing task (Chun and Jiang in Cognitive Psychol 36:28-71, 1998), shows evidence of intact ability to integrate spatial contextual information. Using an adaptation of this paradigm, we…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Context Effect, Autism, Learning Strategies