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Freeth, Megan; Ropar, Danielle; Mitchell, Peter; Chapman, Peter; Loher, Sarah – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
We investigated attention, encoding and processing of social aspects of complex photographic scenes. Twenty-four high-functioning adolescents (aged 11-16) with ASD and 24 typically developing matched control participants viewed and then described a series of scenes, each containing a person. Analyses of eye movements and verbal descriptions…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Autism, Adolescents, Human Body
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Cihak, David F.; Ayres, Kevin M. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2010
This study evaluated the differential effects of two different visual schedule strategies. In the context of an alternating treatments design, static-picture schedules were compared to video based activity schedules as supports for three middle school aged students with autism. Students used the visual schedules to transition between activities in…
Descriptors: Autism, Criteria, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Visual Stimuli
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Wilkinson, Krista M.; Rosenquist, Celia; McIlvane, William J. – Psychological Record, 2009
We evaluated formation of simple symbolic categories from initial learning of specific dictated word-picture relations through emergence of untaught or derived relations. Participants were 10 individuals with severe intellectual and language limitations. Three experimental categories were constructed, each containing 1 spoken word (Set A), 1…
Descriptors: Photography, Mental Retardation, Language Impairments, Severity (of Disability)