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Bilingualism in children with autism spectrum disorder: Bilingual development and advantages on executive and adaptive functioning
DownloadFall 2022
Many children, including those on the autism spectrum, need to communicate in two or more languages to participate fully in their lives and communities. Despite bilingualism being a worldwide phenomenon, bilingual development in autistic children is a relatively new area of study, with a limited...
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Fall 2020
A widely held, stereotyped belief is that students with autism tend to be mathematically gifted. This stereotype has some support in the annals of autism research, but more recently, researchers have revealed that the rates of both math giftedness and math weakness and/or disability among...
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Fall 2023
Hoveling, Léonie Antoinette Maria
Background: Autistic individuals are often stereotyped as gifted mathematicians and, as a result, autistic traits and behaviours are generally believed to lead to exceptional mathematical ability. Much of society’s collective understanding of autism is based on media representations, which often...