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Direct linkReed, Sarah R.; Stahmer, Aubyn C.; Suhrheinrich, Jessica; Schreibman, Laura – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
Stimulus overselectivity is widely accepted as a stimulus control abnormality in autism spectrum disorders and subsets of other populations. Previous research has demonstrated a link between both chronological and mental age and overselectivity in typical development. However, the age at which children are developmentally ready to respond to…
Descriptors: Autism, Preschool Children, Cues, Mental Age
Iarocci, Grace; Burack, Jacob A.; Shore, David I.; Mottron, Laurent; Enns, James T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
Global-local processing was examined in high-functioning children with autism and in groups of typically developing children. In experiment 1, the effects of structural bias were tested by comparing visual search that favored access to either local or global targets. The children with autism were not unusually sensitive to either level of visual…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Bias, Visual Discrimination
O'Riordan, Michelle; Passetti, Filippo – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
Recent studies have suggested that unusual visual processing in autism might stem from enhanced visual discrimination. Although there are also many anecdotal reports of auditory and tactile processing disturbances in autism these have received comparatively little attention. It is possible that the enhanced discrimination ability in vision in…
Descriptors: Autism, Auditory Discrimination, Tactual Perception, Hypothesis Testing
