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Direct linkWahlberg, Timothy; Magliano, Joseph P. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
This study assessed whether high functioning readers with autism are capable of drawing on prior knowledge during reading. Readers with autism and matched normal readers read ambiguous texts that described well-known historical events. The presence of an informative or noninformative title and primer texts that explicitly described the referenced…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Cues, Autism, Reading Comprehension
