Stimulus Overselectivity in Autism, Down Syndrome, and Typical Development

Stimulus overselectivity refers to maladaptive narrow attending that is a common learning problem among children with intellectual disabilities and frequently associated with autism. The present study contrasted overselectivity among groups of children with autism, Down syndrome, and typical develop...

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Published in:American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities 2016-05, Vol.121 (3), p.219-235
Main Authors: Dube, William V, Farber, Rachel S, Mueller, Marlana R, Grant, Eileen, Lorin, Lucy, Deutsch, Curtis K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Adolescent
Adult
Age
Attention - physiology
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Autism
Autistic Disorder - physiopathology
Behavior
Behavior Patterns
Child
Child Development - physiology
Child, Preschool
Children
Communication
Comparative Analysis
Curricula
Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Down Syndrome
Down Syndrome - physiopathology
Female
Humans
Intellectual disabilities
Language Acquisition
Learning
Male
Matched Groups
Mental Age
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Performance Based Assessment
Psychomotor Performance
Quality of life
Spatial Ability
Special education
Students
Studies
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Visual Discrimination
Young Adult
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Summary:Stimulus overselectivity refers to maladaptive narrow attending that is a common learning problem among children with intellectual disabilities and frequently associated with autism. The present study contrasted overselectivity among groups of children with autism, Down syndrome, and typical development. The groups with autism and Down syndrome were matched for intellectual level, and all three groups were matched for developmental levels on tests of nonverbal reasoning and receptive vocabulary. Delayed matching-to-sample tests presented color/form compounds, printed words, photographs of faces, Mayer-Johnson Picture Communication Symbols, and unfamiliar black forms. No significant differences among groups emerged for test accuracy scores. Overselectivity was not statistically overrepresented among individuals with autism in contrast to those with Down syndrome or typically developing children.
ISSN:1944-7515
1944-7558
DOI:10.1352/1944-7558-121.3.219