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Liss, Miriam; Harel, Brian; Fein, Deborah; Allen, Doris; Dunn, Michelle; Feinstein, Carl; Morris, Robin; Waterhouse, Lynn; Rapin, Isabel – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2001
A study involving 35 children (age 9) with high-functioning autism, 31 children with developmental language disorder, 40 children with low-functioning autism, and 17 children with low IQ, found IQ was predictive of adaptive behavior in both low-functioning groups, but language and verbal memory predicted adaptive behavior in higher functioning…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Autism, Children, Cognitive Ability
Bailey, Don; Hatton, Deborah – 2001
This final report reviews the second phase of a life-span study of boys with fragile X syndrome (FSX), the most common known inherited cause of mental retardation. Males with the syndrome are more severely affected than females and in males, delays are usually evident in all the developmental domains, although cognitive and communication skills…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Ability