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Salomone, Erica; Settanni, Michele; McConachie, Helen; Suma, Katharine; Ferrara, Federica; Foletti, Giulia; Salandin, Arianna; Brown, Felicity L.; Brown, Felicity L.; Pacione, Laura; Shire, Stephanie; Servili, Chiara; Adamson, Lauren B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Parents of children with ASD (N = 86; mean age 44.8 months; 67 boys) were randomized to either WHO Caregiver Skills Training (CST) delivered in public health settings in Italy or enhanced treatment-as-usual. Primary blinded outcomes were 3-months post-intervention change scores of autism severity and engagement during caregiver-child interaction.…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Skill Development, Public Health, Health Services
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Valeri, Giovanni; Casula, Laura; Napoli, Eleonora; Stievano, Paolo; Trimarco, Barbara; Vicari, Stefano; Scalisi, Teresa Gloria – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
A novel battery (BAFE; Valeri et al. 2015) was used in order to assess three executive function (EF) abilities (working memory, inhibition and shifting) in a sample of 27 intellectually able preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with 27 typically developing children matched on age and nonverbal IQ. Differences in EF skills were…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Short Term Memory
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Ruta, Liliana; Mazzone, Domenico; Mazzone, Luigi; Wheelwright, Sally; Baron-Cohen, Simon – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) has been used to define the "broader" (BAP), "medium" (MAP) and "narrow" autism phenotypes (NAP). We used a new Italian version of the AQ to test if difference on AQ scores and the distribution of BAP, MAP and NAP in autism parents (n = 245) versus control parents (n = 300) were…
Descriptors: Autism, Parents, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)