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Sapey-Triomphe, Laurie-Anne; Sonié, Sandrine; Hénaff, Marie-Anne; Mattout, Jérémie; Schmitz, Christina – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
The learning-style theory of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (Qian, Lipkin, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5:77, 2011) states that ASD individuals differ from neurotypics in the way they learn and store information about the environment and its structure. ASD would rather adopt a "lookup-table" strategy (LUT: memorizing each…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Cognitive Style
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Klin, Ami; Danovitch, Judith H.; Merz, Amanda B.; Volkmar, Fred R. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2007
Circumscribed interests are a fascinating and an understudied phenomenon in some individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Research in this area is likely to contribute to our understanding of ASDs and to advancing developmental knowledge on learning processes used to adapt to the demands of everyday social life. This study reports on a…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Verbal Learning, Social Life, Learning Processes