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Blum, Alexander Mario – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Notions of accessibility bring to question the perceived deficits in narrative comprehension for autistic people. This deficit has been positioned as having a cognitive processing disposition towards local coherence, rather than global coherence. Rather than a unitary deficit in the individual, reduced performance on inferential narrative…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Cartoons, Inferences
Armstrong, Teresa Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In recent years there has been a growing interest in autism and information about the disorder has frequently been covered in magazines and newspapers, and on television (Kantrowitz & Scelfo, 2006). According to the Autism Society of America (ASA) (2006), autism is the fastest growing developmental disability with projected annual growth of 10% to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Intervention, Autism