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Autistic children at risk of being underestimated: school-based pilot study of a strength-informed assessment

BACKGROUND: An important minority of school-aged autistic children, often characterized as ‘nonverbal’ or ‘minimally verbal,’ displays little or no spoken language. These children are at risk of being judged ‘low-functioning’ or ‘untestable’ via conventional cognitive testing practices. One neglecte...

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Autores principales: Courchesne, Valérie, Meilleur, Andrée-Anne S, Poulin-Lord, Marie-Pier, Dawson, Michelle, Soulières, Isabelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4359559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25774281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13229-015-0006-3