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Eye Tracking Young Children with Autism
Published on: March 27, 2012
Adaptive behaviour and theory of mind in autism
Eric Fombonne1, Fran Siddons2, Sophie Achard1
1Centre Alfred Binet, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 76 Avenue Edison, 75013, Paris.
Abstract:
The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales are used to assess the real life competence of adolescents and adults with autism in France. Real life adaptation is compared with performance on social cognitive tasks, involving the attribution of mental states, and with subjects' age and ability. New scales are used to contrast real life behaviours which appear to require the ability to attribute mental states with those behaviours which are possible without this ability. Subjects with autism who passed social cognitive tasks showed higher intellectual ability, as well as being older. In addition, they were better than subjects who failed tasks in terms of those social and maladaptive behaviours involving understanding minds. However, when their verbal ability was taken into account, these specific differences were no longer significant. These results are discussed in relation to a parallel study carried out in England, where essentially the same results were obtained. Both studies suggest that the stereotype of the aloof, socially indifferent autistic child does not reflect the sociability of adolescents and young adults with autism.
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