Preserved Imitation of Known Gestures in Children with High-Functioning Autism
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Preserved Imitation of Known Gestures in Children with High-Functioning Autism
It has been suggested that children with autism are particularly deficient at imitating novel gestures or gestures without goals. In the present study, we asked high-functioning autistic children and age-matched typically developing children to imitate several types of gestures that could be either already known or novel to them. Known gestures either conveyed a communicative meaning (i.e., int...
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عنوان ژورنال: ISRN Neurology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2090-5513
DOI: 10.1155/2013/751516