Is Talent in Autism Spectrum Disorders Associated with a Specific Cognitive and Behavioural Phenotype?

Autor/inn/en	Bennett, Emily; Heaton, Pamela
Titel	Is Talent in Autism Spectrum Disorders Associated with a Specific Cognitive and Behavioural Phenotype?
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42 (2012) 12, S.2739-2753 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-012-1533-9
Schlagwörter	Autism; Case Studies; Young Adults; Short Term Memory; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Cognitive Ability; Behavior Problems; Children; Adolescents; Individual Characteristics; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Questionnaires; Talent; Gifted; Art Education; Music Education; Mathematics Education; Attention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Denkfähigkeit; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Fragebogen; Begabung; Hochbegabung; Begabter, Hoch Begabter; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Musikerziehung; Mathematische Bildung; Aufmerksamkeit
Abstract	Parents of 125 children, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders completed a newly developed questionnaire aimed at identifying cognitive and behavioural characteristics associated with savant skills in this group. Factors distinguishing skilled individuals were then further investigated in case studies of three individuals with exceptional skills for music, art and mathematics. The findings from the case studies largely confirmed the results from the questionnaire study in showing that special skills are associated with superior working memory and highly focused attention that is not associated with increased obsessesionality. Although intellectual impairment and a local bias have been widely associated with special skills in the savant literature, neither the screening nor case studies provided strong evidence for such associations. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10