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Viljoen, Marisa; Mahdi, Soheil; Shelly, James; de Vries, Petrus J. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
No reviews to date have summarized the views of parents on the functional challenges and/or strengths of their children with autism spectrum disorder. We set out to perform a scoping review aiming (a) to identify and collate global results to provide a broad description of parental perspective of functioning research and (b) to summarize these…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
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Kissine, Mikhail; De Brabanter, Philippe; Leybaert, Jacqueline – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
This study assesses the extent to which children with autism understand requests performed with grammatically non-imperative sentence types. Ten children with autism were videotaped in naturalistic conditions. Four grammatical sentence types were distinguished: imperative, declarative, interrogative and sub-sentential. For each category, the…
Descriptors: Autism, Sentences, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
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Begeer, Sander; De Rosnay, Marc; Lunenburg, Patty; Stegge, Hedy; Terwogt, Mark Meerum – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
The understanding of emotions based on counterfactual reasoning was studied in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders ("n" = 71) and in typically developing children ("n" = 71), aged 6-12 years. Children were presented with eight stories about two protagonists who experienced the same positive or negative…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Psychological Patterns
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Wasserman, Stephanie; Weisman de Mamani, Amy; Mundy, Peter – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
The current study examined the criticism component of expressed emotion (EE) and attributions in parents of adults diagnosed with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder (S/SA) or high functioning autism/Asperger's. Consistent with study hypotheses, parents of adults diagnosed with autism/Asperger's disorder exhibited lower levels of high…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Schizophrenia, Autism, Asperger Syndrome
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Fugard, Andrew J. B.; Stewart, Mary E.; Stenning, Keith – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
People with autism spectrum condition (ASC) perform well on Raven's matrices, a test which loads highly on the general factor in intelligence. However, the mechanisms supporting enhanced performance on the test are poorly understood. Evidence is accumulating that milder variants of the ASC phenotype are present in typically developing individuals,…
Descriptors: Evidence, College Students, Autism, Prediction
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Ponnet, Koen S.; Roeyers, Herbert; Buysse, Ann; De Clercq, Armand; Van Der Heyden, Eva – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2004
This study investigated the mind-reading abilities of 19 adults with Asperger syndrome and 19 typically developing adults. Two static mind-reading tests and a more naturalistic empathic accuracy task were used. In the empathic accuracy task, participants attempted to infer the thoughts and feelings of target persons, while viewing a videotape of…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Social Cognition, Adults, Inferences