Social Functioning in Autistic Children with Below-Average vs. Average IQ: Limited Behavioral and Neural Evidence of Group Differences.
Despite the relatively high rates of intellectual disability (ID) in autism, research studies and clinical trials commonly exclude autistic participants with below-average IQ. This study aimed to characterize the effect of intellectual ability on social functioning in autistic adolescents assessed u...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 56; no. 8; pp. 3142 - 3152 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2026
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