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Radley, Keith C.; O'Handley, Roderick D.; Battaglia, Allison A.; Lum, John D. K.; Dadakhodjaeva, Komila; Ford, William B.; McHugh, Melissa B. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2017
The current study evaluated the effects of the "Superheroes Social Skills" program (Jenson et al. 2011) in promoting accurate demonstration of target social skills in training and generalization conditions in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and peers with shared social deficits. Three preschool-age children with ASD…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Intervention, Interpersonal Competence
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Pellicano, Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 2010
There is strong evidence to suggest that individuals with autism show atypicalities in multiple cognitive domains, including theory of mind (ToM), executive function (EF), and central coherence (CC). In this study, the longitudinal relationships among these 3 aspects of cognition in autism were investigated. Thirty-seven cognitively able children…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Autism, Nonverbal Ability, Cognitive Development
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Leekam, Susan R.; Ramsden, Christopher A. H. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
Acts of dyadic orienting (responses to attention bids by a researcher) and acts of joint attention (e.g. pointing and showing behaviors) were observed in preschool children with autism and children with developmental delay. Children with autism responded to fewer adult vocal and non-vocal attention bids that were made singly and by combining…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Autism, Developmental Delays, Responses