Clin, Elise Kissine, Mikhail
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
What is already known about the topic?Autistics are usually reported to share less eye contact than neurotypicals with their interlocutors. However, the reason why autistics might pay less attention to eyes looking at them is still unknown: some autistics express being hyper-aroused by this eye contact, while some eye-tracking studies suggest that ...
Baker, Emma K Giallo, Rebecca Seymour, Monique Hearps, Stephen Jc Wood, Catherine E
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Autistic children experience increased the rates of sleep problems. These sleep problems have been associated with mother's mental health symptoms. However, the direction of these relationships is not well understood. This study investigated the relationships between autistic children's sleep problems and mothers' mental health over a 12-year perio...
Giannouchos, Theodoros V Beverly, Judith Christodoulou, Ilias Callaghan, Timothy
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
This study used data for 14.4 million individuals with 43.5 million emergency department visits from all hospitals in the state of New York to explore the association between suicide and non-fatal self-injury-related (self-injury) emergency department visits and autism spectrum disorder. Overall, we found that individuals with autism spectrum disor...
Palmer, Melanie Chandler, Susie Carter Leno, Virginia Mgaieth, Farah Yorke, Isabel Hollocks, Matthew Pickles, Andrew Slonims, Vicky Scott, Stephen Charman, Tony
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
What is already known about the topic: The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated restrictions impacted all of society. There is emerging evidence showing a range of impacts on autistic children and young people and their families. Further research that looks at how individuals coped during the pandemic while considering how they were doing before th...
Finn, Mikaela Flower, Rebecca L Leong, Han Ming Hedley, Darren
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
When applying for a job, autistic job candidates are likely to face a number of challenges. Job interviews are one of these challenges - they require communicating and relationship-building with unfamiliar people and involve expectations about behaviour (that may vary between companies and are not made clear to job candidates). Given autistic peopl...
Arnold, Samuel Rc Higgins, Julianne M Weise, Janelle Desai, Aishani Pellicano, Elizabeth Trollor, Julian N
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Autistic burnout has been talked about by autistic adults for some time on blogs and in social media. Now, research describes fatigue, exhaustion and other related symptoms experienced by autistic people. We need new ways to help identify autistic burnout. In this study, we tested a new questionnaire called the AASPIRE Autistic Burnout Measure, and...
Greenlee, Jessica L Hickey, Emily Stelter, Claire R Huynh, Tuyen Hartley, Sigan L
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Research shows that parents of autistic children, on average, are stressed; however, there is likely an array of factors that characterize the parenting experience in the context of autism other than stress. Understanding the diversity in the parenting experiences of both mothers and fathers of autistic children is important in the development of f...
Arnold, Samuel Rc Higgins, Julianne M Weise, Janelle Desai, Aishani Pellicano, Elizabeth Trollor, Julian N
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Autistic burnout is something autistic people have been talking about for a while (see #AutBurnout and #AutisticBurnout on social media). Recently, researchers published two different definitions of autistic burnout. We wanted to test these definitions. We wanted to confirm the duration and frequency of autistic burnout. That is, how long and how o...
Lavi, Rachelle Stokes, Mark A
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
It is important that autistic children be diagnosed as early as possible so their needs can be met and their families can gain important insights into their behavior and interact with them appropriately. However, very few autism screening instruments are appropriate for children who have outgrown early childhood. The Autism Screen for Kids and Yout...
Darazsdi, Zoe Bialka, Christa S
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Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Many mental health practitioners in the United States are trained to cure or change autistic people. Some of these mental health practitioners may show anti-autistic bias when working with autistic clients. Anti-autistic bias is any kind of bias that degrades, devalues, or others autistic people or autistic traits. Anti-autistic bias is especially ...
