TY - JOUR
T1 - Recognition of Environmental Sounds in Autistic Children
AU - LANCKER, DIANA VAN
AU - CORNELIUS, CATHLEEN
AU - KREIMAN, JODY
AU - TONICK, ILLENE
AU - TANGUAY, PETER
AU - SCHULMAN, MARION L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Accepted December 18.1987. Dr. Kreiman and Cathleen Cornelius are with the Phonetics Lab oratory. Department of Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Van Lancker, Dr. Tonick, Dr. Tanguay, and Dr. Schulman are with the Department ofPsychiatry. UCLA. We thank Thomas Wickens. Paul Satz, Shannon Lyons, and Karen Emmoreyfor their help with this work. This research was supported by a UCLA Brain Research Scientific Grant. and by NlRA Research Grant 17500-01. Reprint requests to Dr. Van Lancker, Neuropsychology Program, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024. 0890-8567/88/2704-O423$02.00/0© 1988 by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - Environmental sound recognition was tested in children with an autistic disorder, along with recognition of spoken words for the same target items, using a picture-matching task. No overall difference between sound and word recognition scores was observed for either autistic or normal subjects. However, those autistic children found to achieve high scores on the sounds also scored highly on a visual pattern matching task. Thus, a pattern-matching ability was found across two modalities, visual and auditory, in this subgroup of children with an autistic disorder. Possible relevance of this finding to hemispheric dominance (as reflected by handedness studies) in autism, and to the putative inabilities of these children to recognize affectual cues, are considered. These findings also have implications for clinical assessment, indicating that tests of pattern-matching may provide more specific information about preserved skills in the individual child with an autistic disorder. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 1988, 27, 4:423–427.
AB - Environmental sound recognition was tested in children with an autistic disorder, along with recognition of spoken words for the same target items, using a picture-matching task. No overall difference between sound and word recognition scores was observed for either autistic or normal subjects. However, those autistic children found to achieve high scores on the sounds also scored highly on a visual pattern matching task. Thus, a pattern-matching ability was found across two modalities, visual and auditory, in this subgroup of children with an autistic disorder. Possible relevance of this finding to hemispheric dominance (as reflected by handedness studies) in autism, and to the putative inabilities of these children to recognize affectual cues, are considered. These findings also have implications for clinical assessment, indicating that tests of pattern-matching may provide more specific information about preserved skills in the individual child with an autistic disorder. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 1988, 27, 4:423–427.
KW - afTectual cues
KW - autism
KW - pattern-matching ability
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U2 - 10.1097/00004583-198807000-00007
DO - 10.1097/00004583-198807000-00007
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 3182598
AN - SCOPUS:0023814790
VL - 27
SP - 423
EP - 427
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry
SN - 0890-8567
IS - 4
ER -