Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: Can We Differentiate Their Cognitive Profiles?

Autor/inn/en	Planche, Pascale; Lemonnier, Eric
Titel	Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: Can We Differentiate Their Cognitive Profiles?
Quelle	In: Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 6 (2012) 2, S.939-948 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-9467
DOI	10.1016/j.rasd.2011.12.009
Schlagwörter	Control Groups; Autism; Asperger Syndrome; Clinical Diagnosis; Profiles; Cognitive Ability; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Comparative Analysis; Verbal Ability; Psychomotor Skills; Visual Perception; Comprehension; Spatial Ability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Asperger-Syndrom; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Denkfähigkeit; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Mündliche Leistung; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Verstehen; Verständnis; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen
Abstract	The aim of this study was to investigate whether children with high-functioning autism (HFA) and Asperger's syndrome (AS) can be differentiated from each other and from typically developing children on their cognitive profiles. The present study included a total of 45 participants: children with autism (high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome) and a matched control group of typically developing children (n = 15 per group). Two tasks were used to establish their cognitive profiles: the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition (WISC-III) and the NEPSY scale. Our results highlighted differentiated profiles between the children with Asperger's syndrome and those with high-functioning autism. The first ones showed strengths on verbally mediated skills as well as weaknesses on visual-motor coordination and graphomotor ability, whereas the children with HFA exhibited a profile with deficits on tasks calling upon verbal comprehension and good performances on tasks requiring visuo-spatial skills. This paper argues for a revision of AS criteria in the forthcoming DSM-V rather than a combination of the two subgroups within the autism spectrum disorders in the diagnostic manual. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10