Level of intellectual functioning predicts patterns of associated symptoms in school-age children with autism spectrum disorder

American Journal on Mental Retardation

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 439-449

  Estes, Annette Mercer ^a   Dawson, Geraldine ^a   Sterling, Lindsey ^a   Munson, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT CODING; SYMPTOM; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 37349022422     PISSN: 08958017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0895-8017(2007)112[439:LOIFPP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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