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Peer reviewedPeterson, Candida C.; Siegal, Michael – New Directions for Child Development, 1997
Examined reasoning in normal, autistic, and deaf individuals. Found that deaf individuals who grow up in hearing homes without fluent signers show selective impairments in theory of mind similar to those of autistic individuals. Results suggest that conversational differences in the language children hear accounts for distinctive patterns of…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
