EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION DEFICITS IN YOUNG AUTISTIC-CHILDREN
EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION DEFICITS IN YOUNG AUTISTIC-CHILDREN
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb01036.x
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发表时间：
1993-05-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
PENNINGTON, BF
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作者：
MCEVOY, RE;ROGERS, SJ;PENNINGTON, BF
学龄前自闭症儿童与非语言智力年龄相似的发育迟缓儿童和语言技能相似的正常发育儿童在执行功能和社会沟通能力方面进行了比较。自闭症儿童表现出显着更多的执行功能测试时，比较两个对照组的持续反应。自闭症儿童也表现出显着较少的联合注意和社会互动行为。此外，执行功能技能与两种社会沟通技能之间存在显著的相关关系，而与群体成员身份和语言能力无关。竞争的假设来解释自闭症的执行功能缺陷和社会沟通缺陷之间的关系进行了讨论。
Preschool-aged, autistic children were compared with both developmentally delayed children of similar non-verbal mental age and normally developing children of similar verbal skill on measures of executive function and social communication skills. Autistic children exhibited significantly more perseverative responses on a test of executive function when compared to both comparison groups. Autistic children also exhibited significantly fewer joint attention and social interaction behaviors. Moreover, a significant relationship was found between executive function skill and the two social communication skills, which was independent of group membership or verbal ability. Competing hypotheses to account for the relationship between executive function deficits and social communication deficits in autism are discussed.