1. Comparing Intellectual and Memory Abilities of Older Autistic Adults with Typically Developing Older Adults Using WAIS-IV and WMS-IV.
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Tse, Venus W. S., Crabtree, Jason, Islam, Shamsun, and Stott, Joshua
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DIAGNOSIS of autism , *GERIATRIC assessment , *AGING , *COGNITIVE testing , *COMPARATIVE studies , *INTELLECT , *MEMORY , *PSYCHOLOGY of people with intellectual disabilities , *SHORT-term memory , *THOUGHT & thinking , *VISUAL perception - Abstract
This study aimed to compare cognitive and memory abilities between older adults with and without autism over the age of 50. Twenty-eight individuals with autism and 29 typically developing (TD) older adults took part in the current study. Participants' cognitive and memory abilities were assessed by WAIS-IV and WMS-IV. Older autistic adults were found to have poorer performance in processing speed and visual working memory, but they performed at a similar level as TD controls in all other domains. Poorer processing speed and visual working memory are also often found to be associated with age-related decline in neurotypical adults. Longitudinal studies are warranted to explore how the combination of ageing and autism affects cognitive functioning in older adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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