The findings did not support the widely reported generalisation ' difficulties ' associated with autism .
Research ers have generally considered autistic individuals to have difficulties generalising learned skills across novel context s. Successful generalisation is necessary for an intervention to have benefits in everyday life beyond the original learning environment .
We conducted a systematic review of r and omised controlled trials of early social communication interventions for children with autism in order to explore generalisation and its measurement .
‘Everyday Memory’ Impairments in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Abstract ‘ Everyday memory ’ is conceptualised as memory within the context of day-to-day life and , despite its functional relevance , has been little studied in individuals with autism spectrum disorders ( ASDs ) . In the first study of its kind , 94 adolescents with an ASD and 55 without an ASD completed measures of everyday memory  from the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test ( RBMT ) and a st and ard word recall task ( Children ’s Auditory Verbal Learning Test-2 : CAVLT-2 ) . The ASD group showed significant impairments on the RBMT  , including in prospect i ve memory , alongside impaired performance on the CAVLT-2 . Social and communication ability was significantly associated with prospect i ve remembering in an everyday memory context but not with the CAVLT-2 . The complex nature of everyday memory and its relevance to ASD is discussed
The findings did not support the widely reported generalisation ' difficulties ' associated with autism .
Research ers have generally considered autistic individuals to have difficulties generalising learned skills across novel context s. Successful generalisation is necessary for an intervention to have benefits in everyday life beyond the original learning environment .
We conducted a systematic review of r and omised controlled trials of early social communication interventions for children with autism in order to explore generalisation and its measurement .