Brief Report: Control in Highly Focused Top-Spinning
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
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Effectiveness of a Home Program Intervention for Young Children with Autism
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
This project evaluated the effectiveness of a TEACCH-based home program intervention for young children with autism. Parents were taught how to work with their preschool autistic child in the home setting, focusing on cognitive, academic, and prevocational skills essential to later school success. To evaluate the efficacy of the program, two matche...
Brief Report: Degree of Facilitator Influence in Facilitated Communication as a Function of Facilitator Characteristics,...
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
The Swedish Version of the Childhood Autism Rating Scale in a Clinical Setting
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
The Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) is an instrument for screening and diagnosis of autism. The present study was performed to assess the interrater reliability of a Swedish version of the CARS when used in a clinical setting. The procedure used mimicked a frequent form of consultation in neuropsychiatry and pediatric neurology. During a restr...
Does a Photographic Cue Facilitate False Belief Performance in Subjects with Autism?
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
The posting manipulation, which Mitchell and Lacohée (1991) successfully employed to facilitate false belief (FB) task performance in normally developing 3-year-olds, was employed with subjects with autism. There was no autism-specific impairment on the standard FB task, compared to mental handicap and normal controls: All groups performed poorly, ...
Abnormal Saccadic Eye Movements in Autistic Children
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
The saccadic eye movements, generated during a visual oddball task, of autistic children, normal children, children with attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity (ADDH), and dyslexic children were examined to determine whether autistic children differed from these other groups in saccadic frequency. Autistic children made more saccades during t...
Early Intervention Project: Can Its Claims Be Substantiated and Its Effects Replicated?
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
A comprehensive report to the National Institute of Health on the diagnosis, etiology, epidemiology, and treatment of autism indicated that early intervention has the potential of being an effective intervention (Bristol et al., 1996). In spite of this positive outlook, several research and methodological questions remain regarding time of treatmen...
Following the Child's Lead: Mothers' Interactions with Children with Autism
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
This study examined the extent to which mothers of preschool children with autism use language that is related to the child's focus of attention. Fourteen mother–child dyads involving preschool children with autism participated in this study, along with 14 matched dyads involving typically developing preschool children. Both groups were observed du...
