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Peer reviewedPeterson, Donald M.; Bowler, Dermot M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2000
A study involving 36 British children with autism, 21 children with severe learning difficulties, and 54 controls found correlations between false belief and subtractive reasoning tasks; however, results indicate ability in subtractive reasoning was a necessary but not sufficient component of successful performance in the false belief tasks.…
Descriptors: Autism, Beliefs, Children, Cognitive Development
