Early Categorization of Animate/Inanimate Concepts in Young Children with Autism

Early categorization abilities in young children with Williams syndrome.

The present study investigated whether 2- to 6-year-old children with Williams syndrome can form new object categories based on either visual or verbal information alone. Children were presented with six triads of objects. In each triad, two objects either shared visual properties, or were given the same name. Following the presentation of each triad, categorization based on the shared visual o...

Fast-mapping in young children with autism

Otoacoustic Emissions in Young Children with Autism.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to investigate otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) in young children with autism compared with those in an age-matched control group. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-eight children with autism aged 3-6 years and 27 typically developing (normally developing) control subjects participated in this study. All the participants had normal hearing and middle-ear function. Au...

Executive functions in young children with autism.

The executive dysfunction hypothesis of autism has received support from most studies of older people with autism; however, studies of young children have produced mixed results. Two studies are presented that compare the performance of preschoolers with autism (mean = 51 months/4.3 years of age) to a control group matched on age, and verbal and nonverbal ability. The first study (n = 18 autism...

Identifying children with autism early?

2007;119;152-153 Pediatrics Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp and Barbara Byers, Ronald Kallen, Susan E. Levy, Scott M. Myers, Alan I. Rosenblatt Vidya Bhushan Gupta, Susan L. Hyman, Chris Plauché Johnson, James Bryant, Identifying Children With Autism Early? http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/119/1/152 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated inf...