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Showing 1 to 20 of 296 for “"Autism Spectrum Disorders"”.
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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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(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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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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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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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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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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The Process of Diagnosis Delivery of Autism Spectrum Disorders
The process of diagnosis delivery of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a topic area that has not been given ample attention by academic researchers. Some researchers have focused on delivering bad news (i.e.Buckman, 1992; Gordon, 2008; & Myers, 1983). Yet, no communication researcher has utilized …
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Autism spectrum disorders in high functioning: Diagnostic considerations (AHA)
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Examining Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
… with neurodevelopmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorders. Inadequate sleep can negatively affect the child's daily functioning as well as serve as a source of stress for the child's family. Although there is a growing body of literature aimed at improving sleep difficulties in …
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Social Cognition with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Peer Relationships
<p>Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders have deficits in social cognition, and as a result, face many social communication barriers especially with their peers. The purpose of this study was to determine whether social knowledge could be improved for students with high functioning Autism …
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Characterization of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children's Picture Books
… picture books portraying characters with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) were evaluated to determine how symptoms of ASD are being portrayed as well to determine common themes found in these books. Books were evaluated using behavioral checklists created using symptoms found in common ASD …
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Internet use among parents of children with autism spectrum disorders
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are uniquely stressed by the difficult behaviors of their children which often result in isolation, depression and financial burden. The causes of ASD are not well-understood but are believed to result from a complex interplay between genetic …
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Cerebello-striatal connectivity and implicit learning in autism spectrum disorders
Previous studies have indicated that persons with autism spectrum disorder have distinct cerebella, striatum, and an impaired ability to anticipate implicit learning sequences; also, previous research indicates anatomic connections among these regions. Investigating distinctions in connectivity and …
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Adult Independent Living Outcomes for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders
<p>Young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) may benefit from lifelong residential, independent living. Often residential housing for persons with ASDs, other than those isolated in the family home, is institutional in nature. The purpose of this research is to identify aspects of a …
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