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Viljoen, Marisa; Mahdi, Soheil; Shelly, James; de Vries, Petrus J. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
No reviews to date have summarized the views of parents on the functional challenges and/or strengths of their children with autism spectrum disorder. We set out to perform a scoping review aiming (a) to identify and collate global results to provide a broad description of parental perspective of functioning research and (b) to summarize these…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
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Viscidi, Emma W.; Johnson, Ashley L.; Spence, Sarah J.; Buka, Stephen L.; Morrow, Eric M.; Triche, Elizabeth W. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Epilepsy is common in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) but little is known about how seizures impact the autism phenotype. The association between epilepsy and autism symptoms and associated maladaptive behaviors was examined in 2,645 children with ASD, of whom 139 had epilepsy, from the Simons Simplex Collection. Children with ASD and…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Epilepsy
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Wright, Barry; Clarke, Natalie; Jordan, Jo; Young, Andrew W.; Clarke, Paula; Miles, Jeremy; Nation, Kate; Clarke, Leesa; Williams, Christine – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2008
We compared young people with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) with age, sex and IQ matched controls on emotion recognition of faces and pictorial context. Each participant completed two tests of emotion recognition. The first used Ekman series faces. The second used facial expressions in visual context. A control task involved…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Intelligence Quotient
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Gadow, Kenneth D.; Devincent, Carla J.; Pomeroy, John; Azizian, Allen – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2005
This study compares DSM-IV symptoms in children (ages 6 to 12 years) with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), clinic controls, and community-based samples. Parents/teachers completed the Child Symptom Inventory-4 for four samples: PDD (N= 284/284) and non-PDD psychiatric clinic referrals (N= 189/181) and pupils in regular (N= 385/404) and…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mental Disorders, Elementary School Students
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Ozonoff, Sally; South, Mikle; Miller, Judith N. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2000
This study compared 23 children with high-functioning autism with 12 children with Asperger syndrome using DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. Findings indicated few group differences in current functioning but many early history differences. The Asperger syndrome group generally demonstrated less severe early symptoms, a milder developmental course, and…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
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Mayes, Susan Dickerson; Calhoun, Susan L. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2001
A study compared children with autism or Asperger syndrome with speech delays (n=23) with those without speech delays (n=24). No significant differences were found on any of the 71 variables analyzed, including autistic symptoms and expressive language. Results suggest that early speech delay may be irrelevant to later functioning. (Contains…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Children, Classification