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ERIC Number: EJ330323
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Recent Experiments on Autistic Children's Cognitive and Social Skills.
Frith, Uta
Early Child Development and Care, v22 n4 p237-57 Dec 1985
Describes four experiments in childhood autism used as research examples in areas of cognition and social skills. An hypothesis which attempts to connect various areas of impairment, nemely, lack of imaginative play, lack of expressive gestures, and inability to predict and understand behavior in others is explored through a specific cognitive mechanism. (DST)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Autism, Children, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries, Information Processing, Interpersonal Competence, Social Cognition
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Dysfunctional Behavior; England