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Peer reviewedKamhi, Alan G.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1990
Content analysis of the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale and the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (TONI) revealed differences in the nature of perceptual and conceptual items. Both language-impaired and normal-language children performed significantly better on perceptual-type than conceptual-type items. The predominance of perceptual items was…
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Intelligence Tests, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedSzatmari, P.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1989
The follow-up study of 16 nonretarded autistic children as adults found that, though most were functioning poorly in terms of occupational-social outcome and psychiatric symptoms, four had essentially recovered. Severity of early autistic behavior was a poor predictor of outcome, but neuropsychologic measures of nonverbal problem solving were…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Children, Emotional Adjustment
