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Peer reviewedSummers, Jane A.; Craik, Fergus I. M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
This study examined the effectiveness of using "subject-performed tasks" to improve memory efficiency of eight autistic children. The procedure involved instructing children to carry out and later remember a series of actions. The procedure's effectiveness was attributed to autistic subjects' lack of verbal encoding strategies and…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Instructional Effectiveness, Memory
