The Role of Timing in Testing Nonverbal IQ in Children with ASD

McGonigle-Chalmers, Margaret; McSweeney, Meabh

doi:10.1007/s10803-012-1545-5

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“…Speech, language, and communication all differ from one another, and verbal tests tend to underestimate the cognitive abilities of autistic people with little expressive language [10][11][12][13][14]. Reasonable accommodations such as allowing extra time [15] and visual supports [16,17] support many such autistics to reveal their verbal comprehension and cognitive capabilities. Not only do many such individuals perform as "untestable" on standard IQ tests, but they tend to poorly relate to functioning in autistic people generally [18].…”

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Kapp

2019

Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement

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This concluding chapter summarizes and contextualizes the stories of events told by leaders of the autistic community and neurodiversity movement. The manifestos, mailing lists, websites or webpages, conferences, issue campaigns, academic project and journal, book, and advisory roles narrated by contributors have had significantly positive impacts on the autism landscape. Yet the contributors told their stories through words, similarly to that much neurodiversity activism takes place through language. Therefore the editor examines the most persistent critiques of the neurodiversity movement, about its representation of people with “severe” autism directly or on their behalf. The analysis mostly disputes these arguments, but finds room for improvement. The chapter ends with consideration of remaining challenges for the movement and future directions for books and scholarship on it.

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Kapp

2019

Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement

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“…Los resultados anteriores están en correspondencia con lo hallado por Erdodi et al (2013) y McGonigle-Chalmers & McSweeney (2013), quienes encontraron que personas con TEA tienen mejor capacidad visual que verbal, la cual varía de acuerdo con la complejidad de la información, teniendo dificultades con la velocidad de procesamiento de tareas complejas. Con relación a esto último, Tsatsanis et al (2011) examinaron en qué medida la organización y el estilo de procesamiento impacta en el análisis perceptual y recuerdo de la información visual compleja.…”

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Perceiving Goals and Actions in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Zalla

Labruyère

Guillaume

2013

J Autism Dev Disord

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In the present study, we investigated the ability to parse familiar sequences of action into meaningful events in young individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), as compared to young individuals with typical development (TD) and young individuals with moderate mental retardation or learning disabilities (MLDs). While viewing two videotaped movies, participants were requested to detect the boundary transitions between component events at both fine and coarse levels of the action hierarchical structure. Overall, reduced accuracy for event detection was found in participants with ASDs, relative to participants with TD, at both levels of action segmentation. The performance was, however, equally diminished in participants with ASDs and MLDs under the course-grained segmentation suggesting that difficulties to detect fine-grained events in ASDs cannot be explained by a general intellectual dysfunction. Reduced accuracy for event detection was related to diminished event recall, memory for event sequence and Theory of Mind abilities. We hypothesized that difficulties with event detection result from a deficit disrupting the on-line processing of kinematic features and physical changes of dynamic human actions. An impairment at the earlier stages of the event encoding process might contribute to deficits in episodic memory and social functioning in individuals with ASDs.

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“…Important information about the cognitive and neurofunctional basis of ASD may be obscured if higher functioning individuals with ASD are compared to lower functioning individuals with TD (or vice versa). Therefore, the decision about what measure of intelligence to use in research is an important one (see Barbeau et al, 2013; McGonigle-Chalmers & McSweeney, 2013). …”

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A comparison of measures for assessing the level and nature of intelligence in verbal children and adults with autism spectrum disorder

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Williams

Engelhardt

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Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Previous work has suggested that the Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) are better suited for capturing the nature of intelligence for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) than the Wechsler scales. The RPM measures ‘fluid intelligence’, an area for which it has been argued that persons with ASD have a relative strength. Given that measures of intelligence are used for establishing clinical diagnoses, for making educational decisions, and for group-matching in research studies, continued examination of this contention is warranted. In the current study, verbal children with ASD performed moderately better on the RPM than on the Wechsler scales; children without ASD received higher percentile scores on the Wechsler than on the RPM. Adults with and without ASD received higher percentile scores on the Wechsler than the RPM. Results suggest that the RPM and Wechsler scales measure different aspects of cognitive abilities in verbal individuals with ASD. For the verbal children and adults with ASD in the current study, the RPM and Wechsler scales have unique contributions that must be considered in context when establishing a baseline of cognitive function. The results of this investigation highlight the importance of thoughtfully selecting appropriate measures of intelligence consistent with clinical, educational, and research purposes, especially for verbal children and adults with ASD.

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The Role of Timing in Testing Nonverbal IQ in Children with ASD

Cited by 10 publications

References 41 publications

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Perceiving Goals and Actions in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

A comparison of measures for assessing the level and nature of intelligence in verbal children and adults with autism spectrum disorder

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