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This study compared adolescents with Asperger's syndrome with typically developing adolescents on a novel problem-solving task that presented videotaped scenarios in real-life-type social contexts. The Asperger's group was impaired in several aspects of problem-solving, including recounting the pertinent facts, generating possible high-quality problem solutions, and selecting optimal and preferred solutions. This group's solutions differed most from those of the typically developing group in social appropriateness. The contributions of social experience, social understanding, and executive skills to performance on the novel problem-solving task are discussed.
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Channon, S., Charman, T., Heap, J. et al. Real-Life-Type Problem-Solving in Asperger's Syndrome. J Autism Dev Disord 31, 461–469 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012212824307
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