Ettina wrote:
btbnnyr wrote:
In autism studies, higher language ability and higher IQ often go together, as does higher adaptive functioning.
If you use the Weschler's IQ tests, they do. If you use Raven's Progressive Matrices (which doesn't require language), they don't.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4287210/(Note: not all autistics score
higher on the RPM, as that study implies. People with NVLD typically score lower on that test. But either way, my point stands.)
I use preponderance of evidence, not one study using one test, to suggest that higher IQ and verbal skills as measured by a variety of tests in multiple studies are associated with higher adaptive functioning.
RPM is a valid test of intellectual functioning, but it has its own deficiencies like any test including Wechsler, which requires too much communication for many autistic people to take.
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