http://www.rdiconnect.com/research/default.aspA collection of Research ArticlesCopyright 2004-2005 - Connections Center, Houston, TXhttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=1c0ae13fb65a48de96c4a2bb28da3a1c5DF6D5FB663C41A79205C62CCA98E363ac12e5cde00a4cea861f0980b26987f7When compared to mentally retarded and typical children, just as many autistic preschool children smiled after completing a puzzle but many fewer looked to share their experience with another person. ...(cont.)Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:25:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=ce4cd3b92119427d940fc7cbffcf9da4099C61DBDA1C427D97FD44607D05A37Cc2032c81b61d46dd9edb1c06855cd2f5Although high-functioning autistic children demonstrated a good understanding of both loneliness and social interaction and demonstrated a high level of social initiation, they spent half as much time ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 01:42:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=b23ed10a58fc4b628988bae136dad5321DAEE98E42544A35BAFB2FCC21CEBDD6a1d34deba4c248ae8bd240fb8e8033b4This study demonstrates that ASD 1-year-olds can be distinguished not only from typical 1-year-olds but also from mentally retarded 1-year-olds. ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 01:42:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=1f8ca87da524420992e9b2337716b65cA67CB5C530754C92A89A9C988058E744f7fe2af3b4494b3983d4143c81b57442Typical undergraduate students have better long term memory capabilities for concrete rather than abstract nouns, and when more personally meaningful associations are made with the noun, long term mem ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:50:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=88e2f4bdf3fc4ddeb5244c7c18d04d22CC0A5E54AB724D8AA404CE30FFC4054A39509530d49f47c0b6341ce93ac78e8cWhen compared to typical children, autistic children are not impaired in non-social memory tasks but are impaired in face-memory tasks. ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:51:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=b45a91cb604d4b818ccdde76306e8a1fEBBAAF544CA14257A1CA05E0081F6388aed45c66ecf9404cacc22c2db12c6ddbTypical children remember actions they performed better than those performed by a peer. However, the opposite was found to be true of autistic children. ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:57:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=5146a28832d44063bfd692d6d9dcc85125FDF928DE5149A89A763670FF3EF58Ff3d314ec4f09484ab95ca127c1224fd3Although the majority of adults with Asperger's Syndrome or high-functioning autism are living independently, most are unemployed, dependent on public or private support and did not have a romantic pa ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=0a32450740344fbe90a5efbb060ee7f93DA7F5BDA0E145C7B83A6C947C8978A82e6f5960a41445d197b14fae3b614e8bAutistic people are less likely than typical people to make verbal or non verbal gestures, wave goodbye or smile to an unfamiliar adult. ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=563d723a5307439f940c4df2c1e4efd990C7452E0AD947FC901AC1AAA97A306958e499f0d3b94e77bf33f2dd412e8fc7The study examined the specific types of attention deficits of autistic people by comparing the response times of autistic, mentally retarded and typical individuals in a series of simple tasks. The r ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:09:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=4d48d63d30f84ade8d5dffebd00041814764A189F7F84E69A5A684F7046B7CAD58c40006048841e5b00d4a936f35b711When compared to children with Downs Syndrome, children with autism demonstrated fewer positive expressions, more negative expressions, and had less self-regulation ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:12:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=d588de7c57d04f1a89584697a479b354A7C71C97794E428AA886698F8D4EC8EB5e5bf35ce178422c9d0ba2cd3e3089e8The group of 19 autistic children who received 40 hours a week of behavioral therapy faired much better than the groups who received 10 hours a week or no intervention whatsoever. Slightly less than h ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:15:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=b016ee83cd9146d781c51b6ca113002d6A172002ECDE43508A92ED0CB5849C3D8bd08d115fc34afeafdf23596d8ff787Dr. Patricia Howlin addresses the question of whether high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome are different conditions or not. No differences were found between adults diagnosed with high-func ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:18:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=fac7f52caec7430ca2d13add696f0fbc6CC8CBED86F54DA1872635668A4E878E1c4f24c9daac42c9bebb5a3b3b978b08Children diagnosed with autism and those diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome's Syndrome were compared using the ADI and ADI-R over 2 years from. The analysis revealed that children with autism improved ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:21:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=720fc7b1ec3142f8a7c7992441fc3ce997EFE788C5ED47768E2EF5A58FAFC0F5aaa76681067941dcb87b61707c92ca2eAlthough the cognitive functioning of the high-functioning autistic group helped them to respond more pro-socially than the low-functioning autistic group in some situations, both groups were dramatic ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:24:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=2b28d324dbd8478badb8774615c2cbd6E4FAF76E00CA4CE0A7572038F79979260a108dab9f1a4a64a6eeea884e90528fThe number of adults and adolescents with autism who have friends and participate in recreational activities is low. Moreover, having friends was predicted by individual characteristics such as social ...(cont.)Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:28:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=287854a0c47c43caab0feaf958dfc530719D450DD8C04122ADD2F719233A38EBf26f4992bf124b18aa438c2a54e54b4dTypical females performed better on an empathizing task than typical males who performed better than Asperger's Syndrome males; however, both groups of males out performed the females on the systemizi ...(cont.)Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:37:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=659d0c7f1c5544b9bc3ba84c0d075a29F0A54488808F45CE9879EA88C45D21D18eb211c3b0304e9183ebd3f62139ac33It has been found that although they have intact language ability, individuals with Asperger syndrome have deficits in pragmatic language in particular they have difficulty understand language that is ...(cont.)Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:37:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=e853c4730bce418598f8ba3ce1cd95b6935A7FA1AC1041E9B18733F3C865D32579f723e12cc040d88f19e52cdb63c06bAlthough there were mixed patterns in each group, an overall trend was found that people with Asperger have a higher verbal IQ than people with high-functioning autism ...(cont.)Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:37:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=448ec0077a444fdcb98b0509d48c126c0B8440ACC5AA41809B8F4CF009EBA1EF391e1eef31ca4776a1b2b00e04cef041Many articles published in recent years dealing with imitation and autism are reviewed. The general consensus is that imitation is consistently impaired in autistic children. ...(cont.)Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:37:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=a986be2e6a614e4f9dc07d1d83569060534928F06A2C46159F79B1DA3E4563783a29570330744d9ead327925a35a3b83A type of brain wave, P3, increases in amplitude when more attention is given to a particular task. Humans seem to have a limited amount of attention to allocate, so when the brain is processing two ...(cont.)Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:37:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=bf127c77b2ce4690a11c20d07a002ca607977CFD705E4C7BB1AC13E752BEDBE6e75cb15028dd43cc828041dcaf0e7d61This is an introduction to a special Clinics issue of the Journal of Communication Disorders. The issue focuses on suggesting techniques to help understand clients with autism spectrum disorders as we ...(cont.)Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:37:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=bfc3c9debe264a56b1ee37eda88d2945FFE8659E2CBF408B818DC6A83CA858669698dc342c6c4bb49f51dbc2d07c2a1e89 autistic children were given a battery of language tests and an IQ test. The group was very heterogeneous with regard to language ability. The pattern of language scores of the autistic children t ...(cont.)Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:37:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=47467c8b619841a081be0a912536dbbc94D098508D65486F996F1B56C63CE850c60b48dd8fd24a5288e7d96355034d69Autistic and mentally retarded children differed in the frequency of social initiations to peers and in the quality of social initiations to both peers and adults. Additionally, cognitive abilities bu ...(cont.)Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:37:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=c318dba9e493420d896a57e0021536a9326764FB56BC4DAA8B3304A704E15936f9932db2724442ae9930c0486bcda348Home movies spanning the first two years of life of 15 autistic and 15 typical children were compared and rated for several actions in 3 domains: social, symbolic, and intersubjectivity (understanding ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=95b315b34a6645b09fc265dc3f7771a7631650BC8E4B41A7A545EBFCA5FEFA21e4dbd0ce6afb4494a897deaa5bda21feWhen forming memories, processing novelty and processing novel associations are done by different parts of the brain. The left medial temporal part of the brain was used the most when new stimuli were ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=db17e2e8e95741289190b0180738867e0182A1B367BB4620AF54934281531D6A6720c0f0370647089f7a660f03dd82a5This article reviews many studies that have examined the possible role of the medial temporal lobe in autism. The author also includes more in depth reviews of research she has done that involved dest ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=e00dadc112f04d5fabd117b7a0b53befBBA65AFA6EED4A2A9404E3B98B6D61AF2129a1216d1244e8af17fd7c40c2dc32The social behavior and memories of monkeys who had had there hippocampus destroyed in infancy were compared to normal monkeys and to monkeys who had had a similar surgery but later in life. It was f ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=7f52e0f961a14c82a623672baca8ae56C1ED8809C9384993B4A7876D6E2A013Be72ca0bc41834c6e92eb4899ee5943a4450 surveys were completed by parents of adult children on the spectrum and 38 adults on the higher end of the spectrum filled out a separate survey as well. The results basically show that autistic p ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=e8a5306907dc47478dcdea7d2cbcb82a1829C6085B5D459ABAC65DC6A457DD450ce74f4bb0f4423c8b9004cef3304d4868 adults who were diagnosed with autism as children and who had an IQ above 50 were tracked down. Follow-up tests and interviews were administered. There were a wide variety of outcomes; however, m ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=fcaee385f7ad4e76880930a028b1b1d400521979ECFF4E069F7203E21FDD17120f3886d48a774e7a8db27bf9aa23c4b2Children previously diagnosed with Autism, receptive language disorder and expressive language disorder were administered the ADOS. A significant difference in scores was found between the autistic c ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=690ba132c5d24d5d9ae9b44e80ce2692DEA0B4F2646345A88FC9C5B6EEB9E34Cb36aa64f065d4313b9f22179c923b3e2Video tapes of children when they were 9-12 months of age were obtained of children who had autism, developmental disabilities, and who were typical. There were differences found between the 3 group ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=b3c79875f1c643c2bc9b2903f659ed87DA1F8CEF7CE54A4EAB011FD91FEF891991eda27ef3f047d38f6550c0acee5a80Even for typical children, different cognitive tests can yield different results. Because of the particular deficits and uneven development of autistic children, the results of these tests are even m ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=6c0df88411dc4a148a685e7859b102d359058D22F6B748D59512622E85DD5075bca8ac2e30e3442797c5bf93c5dedfc1The author presents a theory of autism that is rooted in social gaze. Most infants are born with an instinct to gaze at other people's faces and eyes and to follow the other person's gaze if it is di ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=af0aa5006ce64fa990b9d027c5c6346bBCAA1250A86549B690F8A602909499AC21a0e7b84f72446aa701c127416b27eaIn addition to measuring the well being of patients based on merely the presence or absence of symptoms, both clinicians and researchers assessing outcome should consider a patient's satisfaction with ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=b1e5802b65ad4a70912ecec4c7fefaff96E12DBD183044BB90F292BE537558F5c55c08095cd346938d4ba51f8a75770cThe Pediatric Oncology Quality of Life Scale (POQOLS) was designed to assess the quality of life of children after going through medical treatment. The test was particularly designed for children wit ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=93c9a62bb2974009b4d7fdb317a49f2d73C7C23325A74B51A183B46CB430E136e3f166c70a384940ad5ee214130dc263When divided on the presence or absence of language delay, no differences are found between high-functioning autistic and Asperger children questioning the validity of the distinction between these tw ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=ac1fc4ffe01d40bb844f8f04440e03d1423FEB253BB048D2B10C0CB232E6644260cf6c6c52b54f34a9567c474bf0a0f33 to 4 year old autistic children are impaired compared to mentally retarded and typical children in joint attention, social orienting and attention to another's distress. Social orienting and joint a ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=75cc34cb3642484a944b59130eea6b2328F0A5F70A7440159ECFDD721BBF9D46c96dfe36e1bd4e378d6dbc5f74bab402Although adults with Asperger were able to remember a list of words equally as well as normal adults matched for IQ, the method used to remember them was slightly different for the two groups. The As ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=add9b69b71844edeb7148bac9a0074f4E65C4301A78B4F8B8B7B7B7CF1185B56bdc9f725bf5647f1890b97ce525a6d22When people reported knowing that they had seen a face before but did not remember details, the face was most often a typical face. On the other hand, when people reported remembering seeing a face a ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=214d371a42744f42ba06ba26e05646b7A559595E9FDF42218AD16B2B7B1277E86e1047fc65ab4934b9a404edd8f65f87ASD adults had more difficulty processing their emotions and were more depressed than their relatives and typical adults. ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=7abb53c9cf2c4e0db1462aa8a3f9b90e344DC8B1DFD24267A0DF13ACC495FEAF954fa01287da48489887cefa0dbc8810The hippocampus is activated when memories are actively remembered and associated with a time and place. It is not activated when items are remembered by just a feeling of familiarity. ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=6916a41d093b4486bfea8fe1c668834418703BDAE912477AB03DF7AC8313CE020571812a158041a1a954ede2f56e94c3It has been suggested that autistic people are impaired in their ability to distinguish between actions they have performed and actions that somebody else has performed. Although this study finds sma ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=50a35ab803e542189c6ff626053516b71D3D230E1DDC4EF193DB2F73B1426D1Fc04756f30d5b4067a167d8599e078a5aThis study goes beyond previous research that had suggested that people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) had verbal memory deficit and finds that people with OCD have both verbal and non-verba ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=3ec8878b553446e3abae23ba020a3d0005A5A91BA6054A7DAE5F48AA761866F8b8976ebe34cb4d48be7979699b6c92d7High functioning people with ASD and typical people were administered a series of memory tasks. People with ASD remembered words equally well when given semantic (meaning bases) memory hints and when ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=0ca97a67261240d899eae894649cb60976BAA687FE2A482DA4B7D2599605298D98c491cdbcc644cd8be5d5beb4649d47High-functioning autistic children and children with a developmental language delay (DLD) were compared on variety of executive functioning tests that measured things like ability to plan, maintain at ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=1e575d7e1ca442e28f185be89f8690b224556199740B4282BF981D67630E0674fd4f8eaa3d114b9987a49720888e8c6eAutistic children were found to be impaired in their ability to remember whether they or an experimenter had performed an action. Additionally, the typical and developmentally delayed children were ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=f9d9b5db80964d6f85ed1c8e3a20532883141378A61D4DFE97CABA2FB9BE0965d9e48b1f76e44c81b8011dec4073577cAdolescents with ASD were asked to choose the correct ending to several jokes and comic strips. It was found that they made more errors compared to typical adolescents. In particular, the ASD partic ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=847db2e17375472a8ed5cb94ac27adf7E2D8CDBBB6D240B8885FB0210E9A901Bbfd5ae8e6e3d4f51847f75621187b758Individuals with Asperger syndrome and Autism were not able to generate as many novel responses as typical children or children with learning difficulties. Additionally, the novel responses that child ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=0af0836794d84dccaf10e8a207c66c4a165DD506EF0E4CC688802E84F8930F10a76bfea2fb1f4ab7b3e3d7c8e45a42edA variety of verbal skills were assessed in high functioning autistic children. Although they were unimpaired in their vocabulary and in finding multiple interpretations for ambiguous speech, autistic ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=6a141aeed5fc48eebd643a440379aa11D0F61518C77E426EA17722007D0A8F81e9115e1f3f04477ab7db7bde49f758d4Procedural and declarative memory are often addressed by educational psychology, but episodic memory or memory of events in one's own life is widely ignored. Researching the episodic memory of pupils ...(cont.)Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:05:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=5e1f88c8a9dd41709defe00cd92a5599C97560DBB20649A9A32590BE9E4F5D3Bc7c9e076aade4acabcf31e094414f8c6This paper addresses the issue of how to teach autistic individuals to learn how to learn. While autistic children have been taught individual skills, the generalization of this learning seems to be ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=83019e86ba864121aec8e99ed7a23ac7564D33AEADA54391A580ABEAAAD4ADBE3261c2344fef4a5ba1df51940c34e2f4Participants' brains were scanned while they were resting, listening to biographical information from someone else's life, and listening to information from their past experiences. Several areas of th ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=748514ca892448999a611a4781c0808e83F81740F3474D1BA450C44A0F0180B2785cddd6274a4344add099fb01ba089fA series of tests assessing attentional abilities was administered to high functioning autistic and typical children and adults. It was found that the autistic individuals were only impaired on attent ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=aab958b204724472ab2f27e9a5cedc22C6A83A0AAD0F4FC9B12C77440CEA8B18c0df7c4a148a4a6b900e8b8aaa10a03eAutistic children are known to have communication, social and emotional impairments. Even though they are often purely functional or instrumental, autistic children have been found to be able to engag ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=d6a0f82a915949abb6968696f76eef8a0D85031ACD3F4B78B83E7C3C0054B88B010d227ab7c7486998a5d92c9bc5aeadHome videos from the first 6 months of life from children who were later diagnosed with an ASD were compared to similar home videos from typical children. It was found that the children with ASD exhib ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=6f3218f4c46d403a886977bc2db8f837C4B466715D1A4477A07F102F1612AAC9e585b089a1a046da99e0dfc31b0826f2Children from 3 to 7 years of age and adults were presented with stories in which a current event should trigger an emotional response connected with a past event. ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=b76b8d3e3e37494e8bdea8835bf09da45761CF6A62034DCE9C5E3AA0D87968C81b2ab8a831464723ba3d88fe84ddecddMentally retarded, typical and autistic children's responses to adult displays of distress, fear and discomfort were observed. While the mentally retarded and typical children attended quite a bit to ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=f7c2e58b7a04475ebdc454fbb64bc91fBB731B753E9B43C0982574585D6BB838b065fc6165eb43ffa8743cc450a8a05fChildren with autism who can pass tests assessing understanding of mental states have been found to have better conversational abilities. However, children who had been specifically trained to pass su ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=cb3f280792744a48bbe3766af6cbccc4F0009E4428E34EDEBE31D98501C303C5188e3d73417c40dd9e563338125f44f34 high-functioning autistic children were placed in a clinical social skills group. These children did not show an improvement in conversation skills but did show an improvement in greeting and play ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=7ee78bdb7b4543c481dfba525f94516dB58E0B981D334067BE3499DDBEB7B9E2f1cccac729ef4fe08ecbd4e0a10308d4Previous studies have suggested an autistic bias for local over global processing. This study instead examines gestalt grouping in autistic children. Gestalt grouping is often confused with global pro ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=fe87bcfdf46042a5ad96ae962c6bf52097A78F60CE6D4270B744C225A02FC02C6f4bb44c6d3b47f29b5aa744f5d605c3The authors hypothesized that memory deficits in autistic people are a result of poor organizational strategies and therefore autistic people would perform increasingly worse on more complicated memor ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=585fb548986643478d77868c15d2d303FD4F57B46E814681A45EB37E32AEBFC77aa920a31f264acbbef6d608a50364e7Adolescents with Asperger's syndrome and typical adolescents were presented with several awkward scenarios that involved social conflict. The AS adolescents came up with as many solutions as the typic ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=80f656d5981b42d99e09349a634b1711B9A06D66E05243E6B328CB3C3546CFFF0d8ef98473a5419c986bd95d147e7d2e Researchers have suggested that cognitive shifting and central coherence may be impaired in autistic individuals. Cognitive shifting is the ability to redirect one's attention, and central coherence ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=dea6c473f5954283b5f287641e27da6b8BD4F85DE9AB47E68725C6B6EB6987568aa07569f5b948e09423e0a874c0a7e1It has been suggested that autism is caused by the malfunction of a central cognitive processor. Without this, autistic individuals demonstrate rigid, invariant behavior and thoughts as well as abnorm ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=5254dcad4e28461ea581ce2304853a4c76180068039847598F6A82341494651C262a3a3b5c7e4a9d935a6f79ccf29ea8Several studies have questioned whether Autistic people have a bias to pay attention to small parts rather than larger wholes. The current study uses a unique method and controls for many factors that ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=2ef4f243abde49e6971a5e9f078c1b133E6B631813E44116ABC3EA4ADE966CB72bdb326c03d240a8a14f941e541f82f5This article reviews and expands on several previous criticisms of the Lovaas early intervention program. Not only were there several methodological problems in the original study (Lovaas, 1987), but ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMThttp://www.RDIconnect.com/research/display.asp?id=c83eab9680c84356a4214af35b3d14d8967710BFDA574EC5878754D687961B6205caaba4a2424307940911b9f5356cedAutistic children show an impaired ability to share joint attention with others; however they are not impaired in their ability to use very similar gestures to request objects or events. This separati ...(cont.)Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:16:00 GMT