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Peer reviewedHobson, R. Peter; Lee, Anthony – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1989
Twenty-one autistic and 21 nonautistic retarded adolescents and young adults were compared on British Picture Vocabulary Scale items considered emotion-related or highly abstract. Autistic subjects' lower scores on emotion-related items suggest autism-specific impairments in grasping these concepts. No differences were found for abstract/concrete…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Autism
