| Literature DB >> 21818677 |
Athena Lickel1, William E MacLean, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Susan Hepburn.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the cognitive skills of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) thought to be necessary for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Forty children with ASD and forty age-matched typically developing children between the ages of 7-12 years participated. Groups were comparable with regard to nonverbal IQ, but children with ASD had significantly lower verbal IQ. Children completed three CBT-related tasks requiring emotion recognition, discrimination among thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and cognitive mediation. With the exception of the emotion recognition task, children with ASD performed comparably to typically developing children and with a high rate of accuracy.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 21818677 PMCID: PMC4426203 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-011-1330-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Autism Dev Disord ISSN: 0162-3257