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Peer reviewedO'Connor, N.; Hermelin, B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
Two young autistic children exhibited normal reading comprehension but reading speeds considerably faster than controls. The effect of randomizing word order was minimal for the older of the two autistic boys. Results indicate that efficient grapheme-phoneme conversion is primarily responsible for the fast reading of the autistic children.…
Descriptors: Autism, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedHermelin, B.; O'Connor, N. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1980
Three experiments compared 14 intellectually gifted, 14 musical, and 14 control Ss (8 to 12 years old) on picture and word classification tasks. Experiments focused on judgments about picture and word pairs, speed of motor response in simple reaction times, and perceptual speed in stimulus identification. (SBH)
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Gifted
