On the issue of intellectual disability in autism spectrum disorders

At the stage of school education in the framework of comprehensive support for children with autism spectrum dis¬order it is important to adequately access their educational needs while taking all aspects of autistic disorders into consideration including intellectual disorders. This article examine...

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Main Authors: Morozov S.A., Morozova T.I., Belyavskiy B.V.
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education 2016-04-01
Series:Аутизм и нарушение развития
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Online Access:http://psyjournals.ru/en/autism/2016/n1/morozov_morozova.shtml
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Summary:At the stage of school education in the framework of comprehensive support for children with autism spectrum dis¬order it is important to adequately access their educational needs while taking all aspects of autistic disorders into consideration including intellectual disorders. This article examines some moments of interconnection between autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. It demonstrates that such interconnection can be treated as chronological comorbidity; it depicts dynamics and structure of connection between autism spectrum disorders and intellectual dis¬ability, different variants of qualitative characteristics of this connection; specifics of assessment of the level of intellect in autism spectrum disorders. The article provides practical recommendations for intellect assessment in children with autism spectrum disorder that allow avoiding mistakes in decision-making in educational trajectory of the child.
ISSN:1994-1617
2413-4317