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Philippine Geelhand; Fanny Papastamou; Solène Jaspard; Mikhail Kissine – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Recent accounts of social difficulties in autism suggest that autistic and non-autistic individuals mutually misunderstand each other. This assumption aligns with findings that mixed-neurotype interactions are less efficient than same-neurotype interactions. However, it remains unclear whether different outcomes between mixed- and same-neurotype…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Verbal Communication, Oral Language
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Pezzuti, Lina; Dawe, James; Borghi, Anna Maria – Educational Gerontology, 2021
The aim of this study is to focus on the verbal stimuli of the Vocabulary subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale -- Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV). To our knowledge, this is the first research to examine whether the abstractness/concreteness and the lexical category of the words in the WAIS-IV vocabulary subtest influence the ability to…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Vocabulary, Aging (Individuals), Age Differences
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Froiland, John Mark; Davison, Mark L. – Educational Psychology, 2020
Social perception is important because it can affect the way intelligence is expressed during social interactions at school, home, and work. This study (N = 800) of adolescents and adults (age range = 16-91) examined which specific aspects of intelligence are associated with social perception (a composite of affect labelling, linking prosody to…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Intelligence, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception
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Holdnack, James A.; Zhou, Xiaobin; Larrabee, Glenn J.; Millis, Scott R.; Salthouse, Timothy A. – Assessment, 2011
The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-fourth edition (WAIS-IV) and the Wechsler Memory Scale-fourth edition (WMS-IV) were co-developed to be used individually or as a combined battery of tests. The independent factor structure of each of the tests has been identified; however, the combined factor structure has yet to be determined. Confirmatory…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Short Term Memory, Factor Analysis
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Holdnack, James; Goldstein, Gerald; Drozdick, Lisa – Assessment, 2011
Previous research using the Wechsler scales has identified areas of cognitive weaknesses in children, adolescents, and adults diagnosed with Autism or Asperger's syndrome. The current study evaluates cognitive functioning in adolescents and adults diagnosed with Autism or Asperger's syndrome using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth…
Descriptors: Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Social Cognition, Adolescents