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Taylor, Julie Lounds; Mailick, Marsha R. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The transition from adolescence to adulthood has been shown to be a time of amplified risk for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is unknown, however, whether problems in educational attainment and employment in the years after high school exit represent momentary perturbations in development or a turning point with long-lasting…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adults, Vocational Education, Autism
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Gliga, Teodora; Senju, Atsushi; Pettinato, Michèle; Charman, Tony; Johnson, Mark H. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The recent development in the measurements of spontaneous mental state understanding, employing eye-movements instead of verbal responses, has opened new opportunities for understanding the developmental origin of "mind-reading" impairments frequently described in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Our main aim was to characterize the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Siblings, Cognitive Processes