John Miller: Decoding Dating
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Brief Report: Factors Influencing Healthcare Satisfaction in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
The current study investigated healthcare satisfaction and factors related to satisfaction in 92 adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Participants or their caregiver completed a survey about their experiences with primary care and specialty physicians. Respondents reported a high level of satisfaction with their healthcare. The only factor s...
Expressive Incoherence and Alexithymia in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Expressive incoherence can be implicated in socio-emotional communicative problems in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study examined expressive incoherence in 37 children with ASD and 41 typically developing (TD) children aged 3–13 years old during a frustration task. The role of alexithymia in expressive incoherence was also assessed. ...
Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome: Validity and Suggestions for Use in Minimally Verbal C...
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) is a single-locus cause of developmental delay, autism spectrum disorder, and minimal verbal abilities. There is an urgent need to identify objective outcome measures of expressive language for use in this and other minimally verbal populations. One potential tool is an automated language processor called Language ENv...
A Causal and Mediation Analysis of the Comorbidity Between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Sp...
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are often comorbid. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationships between ASD and ADHD symptoms by applying causal modeling. We used a large phenotypic data set of 417 children with ASD and/or ADHD, 562 affected and unaffected siblings, and 414 controls, ...
Developmental Markers of Genetic Liability to Autism in Parents: A Longitudinal, Multigenerational Study
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Genetic liability to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be expressed in unaffected relatives through subclinical, genetically meaningful traits, or endophenotypes. This study aimed to identify developmental endophenotypes in parents of individuals with ASD by examining parents’ childhood academic development over the school-age period. A cohort of ...
The Support Needs of Children with Intellectual Disability and Autism: Implications for Supports Planning and Subgroup C...
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
The Supports Intensity Scale—Children’s version (SIS-C) was developed to provide a standardized measure of support needs of children with intellectual disability. Over half of the norming sample had a secondary diagnosis of autism. Using this subset of the sample, we engaged in exploratory analysis to examine the degree to which latent clusters wer...
The Cognitive and Behavioral Phenotypes of Individuals with CHRNA7 Duplications
...Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Chromosome 15q11q13 is among the least stable regions in the genome due to its highly complex genomic architecture. Low copy repeat elements at 15q13.3 facilitate recurrent copy number variants (CNVs), with deletions established as pathogenic and CHRNA7 implicated as a candidate gene. However, the pathogenicity of duplications of CHRNA7 is unclear,...
Co-Parenting Quality, Parenting Stress, and Feeding Challenges in Families with a Child Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum D...
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
113 parents of children aged 5–13 with ASD completed online surveys assessing co-parenting quality, parenting stress, and child feeding challenges. Results indicated that food selectivity was both the most frequently reported type of challenging feeding behavior and the most often reported as problematic but was also the only type of challenging fe...
Physical Activity Levels, Frequency, and Type Among Adolescents with and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
We compared time spent in moderate and vigorous physical activity (MVPA), type, and frequency of participation in physical activities between adolescents with ASD (n = 35) and typically developing (TD) adolescents (n = 60). Accelerometers measured MVPA and participants were interviewed about engagement in physical activities. Adolescents with ASD s...
