People with autism tend to score lower than average on intelligence tests. That includes the famous Wechsler intelligence scales, which assess verbal comprehension, working memory, and the manipulation of visual patterns to calculate a test taker’s intelligence quotient (IQ).But on a less well-known test of general intelligence, people with autism perform surprisingly well — with accuracy equal to and speeds up to 40 percent faster than those of healthy controls, says a study published this week.Read more at...SFARI, June 2009.