Wang, Leilei Li, Shuting Wang, Chongying
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Language difficulties exert profound negative effects on the cognitive and social development of autistic children. Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) is a promising intervention for improving social communication in autistic children, but there is a lack of a comprehensive examination of language functions. This study aimed to investigate the effect...
Hu, Anqi Kozloff, Violet Owen Van Horne, Amanda Chugani, Diane Qi, Zhenghan
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Statistical learning (SL), the ability to detect and extract regularities from inputs, is considered a domain-general building block for typical language development. We compared 55 verbal children with autism (ASD, 6-12 years) and 50 typically-developing children in four SL tasks. The ASD group exhibited reduced learning in the linguistic SL tasks...
Riva, Valentina Villa, Laura Fulceri, Francesca Arduino, Giuseppe Maurizio Leonti, Guido Valeri, Giovanni Casula, Laura Zoccante, Leonardo Puttini, Elena Sogos, Carla
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
The COVID-19 pandemic has fast-tracked interest in telehealth methods to guarantee the continuity of care of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Store-and-forward telehealth approaches offer the opportunity to facilitate timely screening of ASD, allowing parents to record videos of their child's behaviors, subsequently shared with clinici...
Zarokanellou, Vasiliki Gryparis, Alexandros Papatheodorou, Paraskevi Tatsis, Giorgos Tafiadis, Dionysios Papadopoulos, Angelos Voniati, Louiza Siafaka, Vassiliki
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
This study examined the validity of the Greek version of the Societal Attitudes Towards Autism (SATA) scale in a Greek community sample (n = 633) and explored how the demographic variables of the sample modulate knowledge and attitudes regarding people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The principal component analysis confirmed the three-dimensi...
Palmer, Sarah J Fanucci-Kiss, Adrian Kipervassar, Ella Jalnapurkar, Isha Hodge, Steven M Frazier, Jean A Cochran, David
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
This study investigated how emotional valence of a perceived emotional state impacted performance on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes task (RMET) in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing (TD) controls. Valence of items on the RMET, Adult (RMET-A) and Child (RMET-C) versions, was first classified in a survey of 113...
Parenteau, China I Lampinen, Linnea A Ghods, Sheila S Taylor, Julie L Adams, Ryan E Bishop, Somer L Zheng, Shuting
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Daily mood can be influenced by a range of experiences. Identifying everyday life experiences that make autistic adults happy and unhappy holds potential to foster positive mood and tackle mental health problems amongst this group. A total of 293 autistic adults between the ages of 18 to 35 years old (mean age of 26.51 years old (SD = 4.62); 43.3% ...
Afsharnejad, Bahareh Black, Melissa H Falkmer, Marita Bölte, Sven Girdler, Sonya
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
A systematic review and meta-analysis were utilised to explore the methodological quality, program fidelity, and efficacy of social skills group programs (SSGPs) aiming to support autistic adolescents in navigating their everyday social worlds. The study evaluated the methodological quality and theoretical fidelity of studies, with a random effect ...
Treves, Isaac N Cannon, Jonathan Shin, Eren Li, Cindy E Bungert, Lindsay O'Brien, Amanda Cardinaux, Annie Sinha, Pawan Gabrieli, John D E
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Some theories have proposed that autistic individuals have difficulty learning predictive relationships. We tested this hypothesis using a serial reaction time task in which participants learned to predict the locations of a repeating sequence of target locations. We conducted a large-sample online study with 61 autistic and 71 neurotypical adults....
Xue, Hongyan Li, Yaru Xiong, Xin
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Chen, Wen-Xiong Chen, Yi-Ru Peng, Min-Zhi Liu, Xian Cai, Yan-Na Huang, Zhi-Fang Yang, Si-Yuan Huang, Jing-Yu Wang, Ruo-Han Yi, Peng
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
To retrospectively explore the characteristics of plasma amino acids (PAAs) in children with autism spectrum disorder and their clinical association via case-control study. A total of 110 autistic and 55 healthy children were recruited from 2014 to 2018. The clinical phenotypes included severity of autism, cognition, adaptability, and regression. C...
