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Impairments in phonological processing and nonverbal intellectual function in parents of children with autism.
Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology - 1 Jul 2008
Schmidt Gwen L, Kimel Lila K, Winterrowd Erin, Pennington Bruce F, Hepburn Susan L, Rojas Donald C
Abstract excerpt
Language difficulties have been implicated to be a part of the broad autism phenotype in first-degree relatives of individuals with autism. Phonological processing difficulties in particular have been reported by some, but not all groups studying parents or siblings of probands with autism. In the present study, we examined a broad battery of language tasks and general cognitive abilities in parents of children...
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