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Paula J. St. James

Researcher at University of Massachusetts Boston

Publications -  1
Citations -  55

Paula J. St. James is an academic researcher from University of Massachusetts Boston. The author has contributed to research in topics: Autism. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 54 citations.

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An observational study of humor in autism and down syndrome

TL;DR: Investigated examples of naturalistic humor in a group of 6 young children with autism and 6 age- and language-matched children with Down syndrome, which indicate that while children with Autism can produce and appreciate humor to a limited extent in a naturalistic setting, they do so at a significantly reduced level compared to matched controls.