Brief report: The level and nature of autistic intelligence revisited

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 678-682

  Bölte, Sven ^a   Dziobek, Isabel ^b   Poustka, Fritz ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Child psychiatry; Cognition; Pervasive developmental disorders; Psychometrics; Testing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RAVEN PROGRESSIVE MATRICES; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62349136337     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-008-0667-2     Document Type: Article

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