[Recognition and reading of upside down pictures and writing as a special ability of autistic children and adolescents].
It is well known that autistic children and youths sometimes have unusual skills. In our investigation of 20 autistic children and 20 normal children, the autistic children were better than the control group at recognizing pictures and reading letters and words presented to them upside down. An attempt is made to explain this phenomenon in terms of the peculiarities of perception and learning common to autistic children.
Kehrer
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HE
Institut für Autismusforschung, Münster.
Morcher
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D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011932:Reading
Das Erkennen und Lesen auf dem Kopf stehender (up side-down) Bilder und Schrift als Mehrleistung bei autistischen Kindern und Jugendlichen.