A quantitative measure of JS’s memory

JS is a highly able, well-educated 37 year old man with Asperger syndrome. A recent qualitative paper (Boucher, 2007) described his self-report of verbal and visual memory difficulties. The present paper used the WMS-III to compare the memory profile of JS to that of the adults with HFA in the Willi...

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Published in:Autism : the international journal of research and practice 2010-11, Vol.14 (6), p.619-628
Main Authors: Ben Shalom, Dorit, Faran, Yifat, Boucher, Jill
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Adults
Asperger Syndrome
Asperger Syndrome - psychology
Asperger's syndrome
Biological and medical sciences
Comparative Analysis
Episodic memory
Humans
Male
Males
Measurement Techniques
Medical sciences
Memory
Miscellaneous
Profiles
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Qualitative analysis
Recognition (Psychology)
Selfreport
Visual memory
Wechsler Memory Scale
Wechsler Scales
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Summary:JS is a highly able, well-educated 37 year old man with Asperger syndrome. A recent qualitative paper (Boucher, 2007) described his self-report of verbal and visual memory difficulties. The present paper used the WMS-III to compare the memory profile of JS to that of the adults with HFA in the Williams et al. (2005) WMS-III paper. Results show that JS’s self-report of his memory difficulties can by and large be supported, that JS’s memory performance is at the lower end of the group examined in the Williams et al. (2005) paper, and that, unlike the group profile in Williams et al. (2005), JS shows reduced performance on both verbal and visual measures of memory. A qualitative analysis of JS’s performance raises the possibility that JS is using language to retain details he can generalize over, as a compensatory strategy for some reductions in episodic memory.
ISSN:1362-3613
1461-7005
DOI:10.1177/1362361310373704