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One of the central concerns of our research program has been to identify the abilities and disabilities of autistic individuals. The purpose of this research is to determine the extent to which problems exist generally for autistic individuals in cognitive understanding of both people and objects, or more specifically, in social understanding. A second issue is whether the social unrelatedness observed in many autistic children stems primarily from a lack of interest in others or from a failure to understand others. These are difficult questions to address, and we have only partial answers. This chapter summarizes very briefly our conclusions based on our studies of 70 young children with autism and then discusses in detail the findings from a much smaller group of older, high-functioning children with autism.
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Sigman, M.D., Yirmiya, N., Capps, L. (1995). Social and Cognitive Understanding in High-Functioning Children with Autism. In: Schopler, E., Mesibov, G.B. (eds) Learning and Cognition in Autism. Current Issues in Autism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1286-2_9
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