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audie

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on: Jun 22, 2018
A splinter skill is said to exist when a ____.
 
  a. person's language ability is extraordinarily good but his or her motor and visual abilities are extremely poor
  b. child does very well on one or more isolated spatial and rote memory tasks but poorly on those requiring language
  c. person can develop a relationship with an inanimate object but not with a person
 d. child can retain information for only a short period of time

Question 2

Tyrel was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and has an IQ below 70 . Despite this, he can remember the name of every all-star baseball player for the past 30 years and can tell which day of the week December 3, 1908, fell on. Tyrel's behavior illustrates ____.
 
  a. superior short-term memory skills
  b. neurological impairments
 c. the term autistic savant
 d. echolalia


briseldagonzales

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c


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