Online research on autism free till end Dec

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www.springer.com/psychology/child+%26+school+psychology/journal/10803

The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders is offering use of its online copies of journals until the end of December.

It's a massive resource for anyone who wants to see the sort of research that's happening.

Particularly interested at first glance in one study about how IQ is (it seems) a useless predictor of exam success for children on the autism spectrum (turns out that social skills are the thing that make a difference for our exam successes rather than IQ - weird...and the opposite of what's true for children who are not on the autism spectrum).

And also a study showing that children on the autism spectrum often understand the intention of ironic comments is to deliberately mislead, but generally don't understand that they are meant to be misleading AND funny.

There's hundreds of articles...I could be reading this lot for a decade!

Thanks for this Amber :)

Weirdly dh and I were talking about ds2's social difficulties and the effect on his education even though he has quite a high IQ. I am also a lot less worried about his dyslexia having a detrimental effect on his results than I am the social side of things. ( I have dyslexia and have a degree.. Hense i'm not that concerned about it).

But the fact that ds has to remember all the social/communication rules, cope with the general school issues, remember to remember to decide people and work out what they want etc.. Before he even starts to learn educationally, makes it very difficult for him.

Hope all of that makes sense.
He would and does learn a lot lot more at home where he doesn't need to worry about getting all the social stuff right.. So this is where we supliment his learning.

The IQ thing makes sense. DS1 is extremely bright but thinks it's as muc fun to get things wrong as right.

Talking of which, if I see Gove with that bunsen burner on the dirty yellow flame again, I might just scream because it's hardly an image of academic "excellence". I only had BBC news on for the weather, too!

I think I have made my printer run out of ink !

some nice bits there to support social/emotional support with regard to education.
thanks again.

Brilliant, thanks for this! I have just received a new ereader so I'll start downloading articles to keep me busy .

Thank you for this - off to browse...

Brilliant, thanks!

Thank you for this, I ended up staying up ridiculously late downloading stuff to our icybox last night.

This is brilliant!