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Children With Autism Show Reduced Information Seeking When Learning New Tasks
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Children With Autism Show Reduced Information Seeking When Learning New Tasks

Nicole Young, Kristelle Hudry, David Trembath and Giacomo Vivanti
American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities, v 121(1), pp 65-73
Jan 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-121.1.65
PMID: 26701075
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Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorder - physiopathology Child, Preschool Developmental Disabilities - physiopathology Female Humans Information Seeking Behavior - physiology Learning - physiology Male
Information-seeking behaviours occur when children look to adults in order to gain further information about a novel stimulus/situation. The current study investigated information seeking in children with developmental delays (DD) and those with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) during a simulated teaching situation. Twenty preschool-aged children with ASD and 15 children with DD were exposed to a series of videos where a teacher provided novel instructions and demonstrated novel actions. We found that children with DD, but not those with ASD, demonstrated information-seeking behaviours in response to instructions that exceeded their level of understanding. This suggests that children with DD may use information-seeking behaviours to compensate for their cognitive and language difficulties when novel actions are being taught, while the same is not true for children with ASD.

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