Are Abilities Abnormally Interdependent in Children With Autism?
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
- Vol. 35 (1), 20-33
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp3501_3
Abstract
We propose that stronger than usual correlations between abilities indicate which cognitive processes are impaired in autism. Study 1 compared partial correlations (controlling age) between intelligence and social cognition in children with autism (n = 18), mental retardation (MR; n = 34), or no psychological disorder (n = 37). Correlations were stronger in the autism group. Study 2 compared correlations between measures of perceptual organization and verbal comprehension, receptive and expressive language, fine and gross motor coordination, and theory of mind, emotion recognition, and emotion understanding abilities in children with autism (n = 30) or MR (n = 24) and in a large representative sample of children (n = 449). Results indicate that autism is marked by stronger correlations between all ability domains, and MR is marked by stronger correlations between motor coordination tasks and other ability measures.Keywords
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