What is it about?
The study is about children's and adolescents' understanding of communicative intentions. Individuals with high functioning autism and typical individuals were given vignettes involving irony, metaphors, emotions, jealousy and social blunders in order to assess their understanding of social intentions.
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Why is it important?
The group with high functioning autism showed significant social communication impairments, taking longer to respond and requiring more prompts. Their performance improved significantly after prompts, indicating poorer initial task performance without them.
Perspectives
I think this work clearly points out a specific type of social communication skills wherein high functioning young individuals with autism often struggle, and suggests how they may be helped.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Social communication impairments in children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome: Slow response time and the impact of prompting, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, July 2011, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2010.12.009.
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