Prevalence of Clinically and Empirically Defined Talents and Strengths in Autism

Autor/inn/en	Meilleur, Andrée-Anne S.; Jelenic, Patricia; Mottron, Laurent
Titel	Prevalence of Clinically and Empirically Defined Talents and Strengths in Autism
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45 (2015) 5, S.1354-1367 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-014-2296-2
Schlagwörter	Autism; Skills; Incidence; Comparative Analysis; Intelligence; Age Differences; Cognitive Processes; Genetics; Talent + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Skill; Fertigkeit; Vorkommen; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Humangenetik; Begabung; Hochbegabung
Abstract	Outstanding skills, including special isolated skills (SIS) and perceptual peaks (PP) are frequent features of autism. However, their reported prevalence varies between studies and their co-occurrence is unknown. We determined the prevalence of SIS in a large group of 254 autistic individuals and searched for PP in 46 of these autistic individuals and 46 intelligence and age-matched typically developing controls. The prevalence of SIS among autistic individuals was 62.5% and that of PP was 58% (13% in controls). The prevalence of SIS increased with intelligence and age. The existence of an SIS in a particular modality was not associated with the presence of a PP in the same modality. This suggests that talents involve an experience-dependent component in addition to genetically defined alterations of perceptual encoding. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01