| Title |
Prevalence of Clinically and Empirically Defined Talents and Strengths in Autism
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, November 2014
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10803-014-2296-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Andrée-Anne S. Meilleur, Patricia Jelenic, Laurent Mottron |
| Abstract |
Outstanding skills, including special isolated skills (SIS) and perceptual peaks (PP) are frequent features of autism. However, their reported prevalence varies between studies and their co-occurrence is unknown. We determined the prevalence of SIS in a large group of 254 autistic individuals and searched for PP in 46 of these autistic individuals and 46 intelligence and age-matched typically developing controls. The prevalence of SIS among autistic individuals was 62.5 % and that of PP was 58 % (13 % in controls). The prevalence of SIS increased with intelligence and age. The existence of an SIS in a particular modality was not associated with the presence of a PP in the same modality. This suggests that talents involve an experience-dependent component in addition to genetically defined alterations of perceptual encoding. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 3 | 11% |
| United States | 3 | 11% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 7% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Comoros | 1 | 4% |
| Poland | 1 | 4% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |
| Austria | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 14 | 50% |
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| Members of the public | 21 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 11% |
| Scientists | 3 | 11% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Unknown | 196 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 34 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 33 | 17% |
| Researcher | 24 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 38 | 19% |
| Unknown | 41 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 68 | 34% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 17 | 9% |
| Neuroscience | 8 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 28 | 14% |
| Unknown | 55 | 28% |
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