Stimulus Overselectivity in Autism, Down Syndrome, and Typical Development

Overview

Journal Am J Intellect Dev Disabil

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2016 Apr 28

PMID 27119213

Citations 10

Authors

William V Dube

Rachel S Farber

Marlana R Mueller

Eileen Grant

Lucy Lorin

Curtis K Deutsch

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Abstract

Stimulus overselectivity refers to maladaptive narrow attending that is a common learning problem among children with intellectual disabilities and frequently associated with autism. The present study contrasted overselectivity among groups of children with autism, Down syndrome, and typical development. The groups with autism and Down syndrome were matched for intellectual level, and all three groups were matched for developmental levels on tests of nonverbal reasoning and receptive vocabulary. Delayed matching-to-sample tests presented color/form compounds, printed words, photographs of faces, Mayer-Johnson Picture Communication Symbols, and unfamiliar black forms. No significant differences among groups emerged for test accuracy scores. Overselectivity was not statistically overrepresented among individuals with autism in contrast to those with Down syndrome or typically developing children.

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