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Cassar, Carolina; Tambelli, Renata; Pezzuti, Lina; Lecis, Donatella; Castorina, Silvia; Ricci, Daniela; Fortini, Stefania; Amore, Filippo M.; De Crescenzo, Franco; Lucchese, Franco – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2022
Introduction: The objective of the current study was to design and pilot-test a nonverbal intelligence test for children and adolescents with visual impairment (i.e., blindness and low vision) aged 10 to 16 years. Method: A three-dimensional haptic matrix test of nonverbal cognitive abilities (3-DHMT-CA), initially developed for adults with visual…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Adolescents, Visual Impairments, Blindness
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Salomone, Erica; Bulgarelli, Daniela; Thommen, Evelyne; Rossini, Emanuelle; Molina, Paola – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2019
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by impairments in social communication and social cognition. Difficulties in emotion understanding, from emotion recognition to emotion regulation are common features that can affect the inclusion process. One outstanding question is the extent to which age and IQ affect…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Emotional Response
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Valeri, Giovanni; Casula, Laura; Napoli, Eleonora; Stievano, Paolo; Trimarco, Barbara; Vicari, Stefano; Scalisi, Teresa Gloria – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
A novel battery (BAFE; Valeri et al. 2015) was used in order to assess three executive function (EF) abilities (working memory, inhibition and shifting) in a sample of 27 intellectually able preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with 27 typically developing children matched on age and nonverbal IQ. Differences in EF skills were…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Short Term Memory