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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Edelson, Stephen M.; Arin, Deborah; Bauman, Margaret; Lukas, Scott E.; Rudy, Jane H.; Sholar, Michelle; Rimland, Bernard – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1999
Nineteen individuals with autism either listened to auditory integration training processed music or unprocessed music for 20 half-hour sessions. A significant decrease in Aberrant Behavior Checklist Scores was observed in the experimental group at the 30-month follow-up assessment. In addition, three experimental subjects but no controls showed a…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Autism, Behavior Change
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Kaplan, Melvin; Edelson, Stephen M.; Rimland, Bernard – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1999
Two studies of strabismus ("crossed eyes") in children with autism are reported. A clinical optometric evaluation of 34 individuals with autism, ages 7 to 19 years, found a strabismus rate of 50% and a parent survey of 7,640 families of children with autism found an incidence of 18% (compared to 2-4% in the general population). (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Children, Incidence
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Edelson, Meredyth Goldberg; Edelson, Stephen M.; Jung, Shin-siung – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1998
A study compared results of a previous study that showed that the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (TONI) holds promise for use with individuals with autism and the results of 39 Taiwanese students with autism. Similar results were found regarding mean TONI scores and the variables that best predicted TONI scores. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Edelson, Meredyth Goldberg; Schubert, Derenda Timmons; Edelson, Stephen M. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1998
This study evaluated use of the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence Second Edition (TONI-2) with 258 individuals (ages 4 to 41) with autism. Results indicated that age, verbal ability, and lack of attention deficits were most predictive of TONI-2 scores, whereas attention deficits and a moderate number of autistic symptoms predicted untestability on…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention Deficit Disorders, Autism