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From Volume 4 Number 2
ST LOUIS, USA: People with autism are more intelligent and able to
function better than previously believed, experts say, but mistrust of
doctors, biased tests and the Internet have bred myths about the
condition.
At a meeting in St Louis of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, researchers presented reports showing
that even people with autism who do not speak can have above-average
intelligence. They also offered additional studies disputing claims
that vaccines can cause autism.
"The current figures are that 75 per cent of
autistic people are mentally retarded, with the mute the most ...
impaired," says the Canadian researcher, Dr Laurent Mottron, an autism
specialist at Montreal's Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies.
But Dr Mottron believes the wrong intelligence tests
are used to assess autistic children. Many are tested using the
Wechsler scale, a common IQ test that includes questions about words
and concepts learned in school. The Raven's Progressive Matrices test
measures abstract reasoning and consistently gives autistic children
higher scores, Dr Mottron says ...
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