ArticleCognitive processing2022
Understanding indirect requests for information in high-functioning autism.
Article in Cognitive processing, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Effects of Mozart-Orff parent-child music therapy among mothers and their preschool children with autism spectrum disorder: A mixed-methods randomised controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2024Trial
- On markers of linguistic impairment in autism and their implementation.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- Autistic and non-autistic adults use discourse context to determine a speaker's intention to request.Cognitive processing · 2025Article
- Validation of PleaseApp: a digital tool for the assessment of receptive pragmatic abilities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Exploring Pragmatic Deficits in Relation to Theory of Mind and Executive Functions: Evidence from Individuals with Right Hemisphere Stroke.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Language in autism: domains, profiles and co-occurring conditions.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Review
- The relationships between students' comprehension of conversational implicatures and their achievement in reading comprehension.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Few works have addressed the processing of indirect requests in High-Functioning Autism (HFA), and results are conflicting. Some studies report HFA individuals' difficulties in indirect requests comprehension; others suggest that it might be preserved in HFA. Furthermore, the role of Theory of Mind in understanding indirect requests is an open issue. The goal of this work is twofold: first, assessing whether comprehension of indirect requests for information is preserved in HFA; second, exploring whether mind-reading skills predict this ability. We tested a group of (n = 14; 9-12 years) HFA children and two groups of younger (n = 19; 5-6 years) and older (n = 28; 9-12 years) typically developing (TD) children in a semi-structured task involving direct, indirect and highly indirect requests for information. Results suggested that HFA can understand indirect and highly indirect requests, as well as TD children. Yet, while Theory of Mind skills seem to enhance older TD children understanding, this is not the case for HFA children. Therefore, interestingly, they could rely on different interpretative strategies.
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