TITLE:
Verbal Short-Term Memory as Language Predictor in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
AUTHORS:
Ioanna Talli
KEYWORDS:
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Language Skills, Cognitive Skills, Verbal Short-Term Memory
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science,
Vol.10 No.5,
May
18,
2020
ABSTRACT: Verbal short-term memory (vSTM) has been shown to be associated with language development in typical and atypical populations. In this study, we investigated cognitive and language skills in 33 school-aged children with ASD (6 - 12 years old) with both typical and low levels of intelligence (18 with typical non-verbal IQ [>80 in Raven] and 15 with low non-verbal IQ [p p