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Peer reviewedGersten, Russell M. – Journal of Special Education, 1980
A critical review of the literature indicates that overselective attention: (1) is not limited to autistic children, (2) may be only one of several developmental lags these children display, and (3) may or may not be strongly correlated with children's language abilities and general intellectual abilities. (Author)
Descriptors: Attention, Autism, Cognitive Processes, Information Processing
