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Strid, Karin; Heimann, Mikael; Gillberg, Christopher; Smith, Lars; Tjus, Tomas – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Deferred imitation and early social communication skills were compared among speaking and nonspeaking children with autism and children developing typically. Overall, the children with autism showed a lower frequency on measures of deferred imitation and social communication compared with typically developing children. Deferred imitation was…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Verbal Communication, Communication Disorders
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Movsas, Tammy Z.; Paneth, Nigel – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Between 2006 and 2010, two research-validated instruments, Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) and Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) were filled out online by 4,188 mothers of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children, aged 4-21, as part of voluntary parental participation in a large web-based registry. Univariate and multivariate linear…
Descriptors: Autism, Regression (Statistics), Severity (of Disability), Age Differences
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Golan, Ofer; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Hill, Jacqueline J.; Rutherford, M. D. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
This study reports a revised version of the "Reading the Mind in the Voice" (RMV) task. The original task (Rutherford et al., (2002), "Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 32," 189-194) suffered from ceiling effects and limited sensitivity. To improve that, the task was shortened and two more foils were added to each of the remaining…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Task Analysis, Validity