This study is aimed at assessing special education teachers' attitudes toward teaching pupils with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and determining the role of variables associated a positive attitude towards children their education. Sixty-nine teachers were interviewed. The interview included two multiple-choice Likert-type questionnaires, one about teachers’ attitude, another perceived needs in relation to specific pupil ASD. shows view expectations regarding A direct logistic regression...

Abstract Recent evidence implicates epigenetic mechanisms in drug-associated memory processes. However, a possible role for one major mechanism, nucleosome remodelling, memories remains largely unexplored. Here we examine mice with genetic manipulations targeting neuron-specific remodelling complex subunit, BAF53b. These display deficits cocaine-associated that are more severe BAF53b transgenic compared heterozygous mice. Similar to the deficits, theta-induced long-term potentiation...

Individuals with High functioning autism (HFA) are distinguished by relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive skills. However, problems pragmatic language skills have been consistently reported across the autistic spectrum, even when structural is intact. Our main goal was to investigate how highly verbal individuals process figurative whether manipulation stimuli presentation modality had an impact on processing. We were interested in extent which visual context, e.g., image...

Las actitudes hacia las personas con discapacidad por parte de los profesionales implicados, directa e indirectamente, en su atención es un factor primordial el proceso integración estas personas. Sin embargo, no usual tener cuenta la diseño curricular destinado a estudiantes universitarios que serán, poco tiempo, encargados satisfacer necesidades asistenciales esta población. En este contexto, presente trabajo pretende aportar datos empíricos sobre ante alumnado universitario matriculado...

Dyslexic and control children were tested in a visuomotor attentional task, which provides independent measures of the alerting, orienting conflict components system. Our results show that dyslexics are impaired with respect to controls component (resolution incongruent peripheral information), while alerting remain preserved. It excludes an overall impairment points more specific processing difficulty i.e. distributed attention strategy. Generally, dyslexic boys within range group, reaction...

Subjective and objective measures of quality life (QoL) were obtained for adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) living in Andalusia (Spain). Seventy-four families responded to questionnaires about QoL indicators such as employment, health, adaptive behaviour social network, asked act proxies subjective measures. Outcome on was extremely poor. Social networks most frequently composed family members. Community-oriented resources absent cases. For two-thirds the families, ability...

Abstract Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often present poor text comprehension relative to their ability read individual words. Some of them have been considered hyperlexic because oustanding word-reading abilities. Although it has suggested that these children access word reading in an atypical way, there is conflicting evidence on use phonological and orthograhic pathways. Fourteen adolescents ASD discrepancy 12 typically developing children, all matched chronological age,...

The present research explores working memory (WM) development in monolingual as well emergent bilingual children immersed an L2 at school. Evidence from recent years suggests that bilingualism may boost domain‐general executive control, but impair nonexecutive linguistic processing. Both are relevant for verbal WM, different paradigms currently use vary the degree to which they reflect these subprocesses. We found only younger immersion students outperformed monolinguals on n‐back task, a...

Different studies have showed poor reading performance in the deaf compared to hearing population. This has overshadowed fact that a minority of children learns read successfully and reaches levels similar their peers. We analyze whether people deploy same cognitive learning processes as For this purpose, we analyzed relation between phonological processing, speechreading, vocabulary, speed, accuracy with efficiency sample two control groups respectively matched on chronological age level....

The sources of reading comprehension difficulties in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are still open to discussion. We explored their ability adapt strategies different goals using eye‐tracking technology. A group participants ASD, and intelligence‐, receptive oral language‐ skills‐matched control peers, read three stories under conditions: for entertainment; study; fast search information a previously presented question. Each text required answer questions. ASD was less accurate...

Abstract Background It has been established that people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have difficulties understanding spoken language. Understanding reflexive and clitic pronouns is vital to establishing reference‐based inference, but it as yet unclear whether such constructions pose specific for those ASD. Pronoun interpretation seems be connected the development of pragmatic abilities, can therefore considered a plausible marker in differential diagnosis between ASD...

This study analyses the spontaneous electroencephalogram (EEG) brain activity of 14 children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) compared to 18 normal development, aged 5–11 years. (i) Power Spectral Density (PSD), (ii) variability across trials (coefficient variation: CV), and (iii) complexity (multiscale entropy: MSE) signal analysis were computed on resting state EEG. PSD (0.5–45 Hz) CV averaged over different frequency bands (low-delta, delta, theta, alpha, low-beta, high-beta...

Abstract Background Problems with pragmatic aspects of language are well attested in individuals on the autism spectrum. It remains unclear, however, whether figurative skills improve status and problems no longer present highly verbal autism. Aims To investigate perform similarly as age‐, intelligence‐ comprehension‐matched controls processing one most common types language, metaphors. The goal was to establish participants primed by expressions (metaphors) presented different conditions....

Previous research suggests that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulties inference generation in reading tasks. However, most previous studies examined how well children understand a text after or measured on-line behavior without response to questions. The aim of this study was investigate the online strategies and adolescents during at same time responding question by monitoring their eye movements. participants ASD compared age-, language-, nonverbal...

The goal of this study was to compare the processing social information in deaf and hearing adolescents. A task developed assess (SIP) skills adolescents based on Crick Dodge's (1994; review reformulation information-processing mechanisms children's adjustment. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 74-101) reformulated six-stage model. It consisted a structured interview after watching 18 scenes situations depicting participation peer group or provocations by peers. Participants included 32 20 young...