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Showing 1 to 20 of 951 for “"Autism Spectrum"”.
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Wayfinding in autism spectrum disorders
This study featured the use of ... a comprehensive battery [of tests], designed to assess general spatial ability as well as varieties of spatial cognition (including spatial navigation).
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Brain Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder
In recent years Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have been considered as resulting from altered connectivity between regions, which may explain characteristic manifestations in socio-emotional function, communication and repetitive behaviour observed clinically. This thesis aims to provide evidence …
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(Re-)conceptualisation in autism spectrum disorders
Background: Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have been shown to be compromised in cognitive flexibility and attentional switching. However, most studies that examine these executive functions did not distinguish between the ability to form new concepts and the ability to switch …
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Reward Neurocircuitry in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder with social impairments and restricted interests. Early behavioural interventions often focus on reinforcing desired behaviours (e.g., eye contact) and reducing atypical behaviours (e.g., echoing others' phrases). A recent …
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Decision-making in autism spectrum conditions
… experienced by intellectually able adults with autism spectrum conditions (ASCs) have been hinted at in autobiographical accounts as well as in the clinical and neuropsychological research literature. Little is known, however, about the nature of these putative difficulties, nor how people with …
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Speech-language pathologists on the autism spectrum
… differences between SLPs that identified on the autism spectrum and those that did not. A mass survey was conducted of SLPs in the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio. It was concluded that 2.98% of SLPs self-identified on the autism spectrum. Chi-square analyses found statistically …
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Visual attention shifting in autism spectrum disorder
… neurocognitive abnormalities characteristic of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Abnormalities in visual attention are particularly notable in ASD and have the potential to inform an understanding of the aberrant neural networks underlying this disorder. The current study utilized a model …
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Investigating Sensory Prediction in Autism Spectrum Conditions
Autism is the umbrella term for a family of neurodevelopmental disorders characterised by heterogeneous clinical presentations affecting social interaction, communication, sensory atypicalities and restricted and repetitive behaviours (DSM 5). The idea of a unifying explanation that can account for …
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Moral development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
This study examined how children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) judged social actions that involve moral and conventional violations. Past research shows that children with ASD, like their typical peers, judge social actions in the moral domain (e.g., causing harm to another person) to be …
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Intact Statistical Word Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorders
<p>Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have impairments in language acquisition, but the underlying mechanism of these deficits is poorly understood. Implicit learning appears potentially relevant to language development, particularly in speech segmentation, which relies on sensitivity …
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Autism Spectrum Disorder: Sensory Needs in the Workplace
… for sensory sensitivities of individual with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and coping strategies used in the workplace. Seven students with ASD were interviewed about sensory sensitivities experienced and accommodations used at the workplace. This study found that participants self-regulated …
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AD/HD and autism spectrum disorders in adults
… deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are early-onset, but often life-time impairing, neurodevelopmental disorders. They are highly overlapping and seem to carry considerable risks of negative outcomes, psychiatrically and psychosocially. Childhood …
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Eyewitness testimony by adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Eyewitness testimony is central to the criminal justice system, and may include that given by individuals with ASD. Despite the memory difficulties that are experienced by people with ASD, sparse research to date has examined the reliability of their testimony. This thesis presents a series of …
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The relationship between stress and Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is understood to be a behaviourally-defined continuum of characteristics that typically involve social interaction and communication deficits and certain sensory and perceptual experiences. In the present series of studies we investigated the nature of the stressful …
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The relationship between stress and Autism Spectrum Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is understood to be a behaviourally-defined continuum of characteristics that typically involve social interaction and communication deficits and certain sensory and perceptual experiences. In the present series of studies we investigated the nature of the stressful …
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Understanding shared family meals on the autism spectrum
… studies have examined families where a child has autism. In order to better understand (1) the nature of shared family meals when a child has autism, (2) how families establish useful mealtime routines and meaningful mealtime rituals, (3) what are the barriers to achieving the family meal, and (4) …
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Examination of the reliability and validity of a new observation measure for autism spectrum disorders: the autism spectrum disorder observation for children
With increasing attention being drawn to autism spectrum disorders (ASD), specifically with regard to early and accurate diagnosis and treatment, researchers and clinicians alike have placed emphasis on finding assessment tools that can aid in this goal. The purpose of this study is to examine the …
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Evaluative conditioning of emotional expression in Autism Spectrum Disorders
… of literature indicating that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have significant difficulties understanding and differentiating emotional expressions and that this may play an integral role in the observable social impairments observed. The current study examined whether emotion …
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Imitation of atypical biological motion in autism spectrum disorders
… imitation of biological motion in adults with autism spectrum disorders. Using a novel behavioural protocol, adults with autism and matched neurotypical control adults imitated models that displayed distinctly different, but biological believable kinematics. In Chapter Two it was observed that …
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