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Cognitive. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 172
Developmental disorders are often studied as either
independent research groups or as clinical case
presentations; these approaches are rarely combined.
This book directly compares cognitive and social
functioning in three developmental disorders:
Williams syndrome (WS), Down syndrome (DS) and
autism (AS), from both a research and a clinical
perspective. This unique approach provides new
insights into cognitive functioning within WS, DS
and AS, including: attention; memory; learning and
processing styles; verbal abilities; spatial skills
and reasoning. New insights are also provided into
how WS, DS and AS view the world from a social
perspective, including: their ability to read
emotions; their motivational drive toward social
interaction; and their ‘Theory of Mind’, or their
ability to understand other people’s behaviours
based on underlying desires, emotions, and thoughts.
Findings also highlight within-syndrome variability
in cognitive and social functions in WS,
which was previously thought to have a homogenous
cognitive profile. The book is a valuable resource
for researchers, as well as health and education
professionals.
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