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Adaptive behaviour and theory of mind in autism

Fombonne, Eric, Siddons, Fran, Achard, Sophie, Frith, Uta, Happé, Francesca·1994·European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
DOI 10.1007/bf02720324
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The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales are used to assess the real life competence of adolescents and adults with autism in France. Real life adaptation is compared with performance on social cognitive tasks, involving the attribution of mental states, and with subjects' age and ability. New scales are used to contrast real life behaviours which appear to require the ability to attribute mental states with those behaviours which are possible without this ability. Subjects with autism who passed social cognitive tasks showed higher intellectual ability, as well as being older. In addition, they were better than subjects who failed tasks in terms of those social and maladaptive behaviours involving understanding minds. However, when their verbal ability was taken into account, these specific differences were no longer significant. These results are discussed in relation to a parallel study carried out in England, where essentially the same results were obtained. Both studies suggest that the stereotype of the aloof, socially indifferent autistic child does not reflect the sociability of adolescents and young adults with autism.

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  • Performance on simplified social cognitive tasks does not always track with the severity of social deficits in ASD.

    “Further, performance on simplified social cognitive tasks does not always track with the severity of social deficits in ASD (37, 38), and interventions teaching people with ASD to recognize emotions from simplified stimuli often improve performance on simplified tasks but not in real-world social interactions (39, 40).”

    From The neural bases of empathic accuracy (2009) · cites this paper as [37]

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Authors
Fombonne, E., Siddons, F., Achard, S., Frith, U., & Happé, F.
Affiliations
Inserm (FR)
ORCID
Fombonne, Eric
Venue
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
1994-07
Volume
3
Issue
3
Pages
176-186
ISSN
  • 1018-8827 (ISSN-L)
  • 1435-165X
DOI
10.1007/bf02720324
OpenAlex
W2071192349
Cited by
83
References
35
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 5
FWCI
1.06
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
  • Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, theory of mind, adaptive behavior, social cognition, mental state attribution, Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, adolescents and adults with autism, intellectual ability, verbal ability, sociability

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