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Cognitive deficits in parents from multiple-incidence autism families.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines - 1 Nov 1997
Piven J, Palmer P
Abstract excerpt
This study compares parents of two autistic children with parents of a Down syndrome (DS) proband, on tests of intelligence, reading and spelling, and executive function. Autism parents performed significantly worse than DS parents on performance IQ, a test of executive function, and some reading measures (e.g. passage comprehension and rapid automatized naming). These results suggest that cognitive deficits may...
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