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Showing 1 to 20 of 396 for “"Children with Autism"”.
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Early intervention for children with autism
… was to examine early intervention programs for children with autism to determine if the program will have a successful outcome. This study involved 34 children from birth to three years of age. Each child participated in an early childhood intervention program in Southern New Jersey. The …
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Teaching Conversational Interactions to Children with Autism
Children with autism (ASD) often struggle as conversation partners. The current study aimed to teach children with ASD to sustain conversational behavior with an adult experimenter. The study was conducted on the basis of Kantor's Psychological Linguistics and Bijou et al.'s set of procedures …
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Teaching Children with Autism Three Different Questions
Children with autism often exhibit deficits in question-asking. This study replicated and extended Williams, Donley, and Keller.s (2000) training package: a modeling and reinforcement procedure to teach the use of 3 different questions about hidden objects. Two boys, aged 13 and 12, with primary …
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Verbal behaviour development for children with autism
… the emergence of generalised verbal behaviour in children with autism was evaluated through a programme of research that also investigated ways in which interactions between speaker and listener behaviour can be manipulated to maximise the effectiveness of language-based interventions. Firstly, …
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Religious Coping by Mothers of Children with Autism
Raising a child with autism can be a great source of stress and may be linked to parents’ well-being and psychological distress. As such, it is important to understand the coping strategies commonly used by parents in order to offer the necessary support to improve quality of life. Considering the …
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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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Prototype effects in high functioning children with autism
… the concepts and categorisation literature, to autism research. The studies reported here tested the claim that prototype formation and therefore prototype effects are impaired in autism (Klinger & Dawson, 2001). The claim is supported by other theories: weak central coherence (Frith, 1989; …
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Nature Based Playground, Design for Children with Autism
… Play-based learning is even more important for children with disabilities. Without play, special needs children may develop learning deficits that complicate the disabilities they are already experiencing. The benefits of play are inextricably related to the environments in which it occurs. Play …
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The establishment of auditory discrimination in children with autism
Earlier studies have indicated that individuals with autism may perform poorly on some auditory discrimination tasks. In this study three participants, one child with autism and two typically developed children in the age 6 – 11 years old were trained to establish auditive discrimination through …
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Expanding training opportunities for parents of children with autism
… study was to demonstrate that parents who have children diagnosed with autism can obtain and apply knowledge of a research-based support for their children by utilizing a prescribed, self-directed, online program, giving families another possible method of obtaining training to help meet the …
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Exploring spatial memory in children with autism and ADHD
… spatial memory in neurotypicals, ASD and ADHD children. In a reaction-time accuracy task, children (N = 117) were presented with a grid containing twenty-five individual places. In the presentation phase, children saw different categories of object-in-places which varied from technical to …
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How does emotionality affect memory in children with autism?
… the impact of emotionality on the memory of children with an autism spectrum disorder. Although emotional events enhance memory in adults and children without an autism spectrum disorder, there are different memory patterns among individuals on the autism spectrum. Specifically, individuals …
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Examining Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Sleep problems are prevalent in children 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 …
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Object Categorization in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
… hierarchical object categorization in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), examining three levels of category inclusiveness (superordinate, basic, subordinate) across three tasks (sequential touching task, generalized imitation task, sorting task) in three domains (animals, …
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Face Processing Strategies in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… to investigate the face processing strategies of children with high-functioning autism. Based on the assumptions that face processing relies on holistic, configural and featural information processing of faces, and on previous findings that individuals with autism show atypicalities in configural …
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Reexamining the Creative Artistic Ability of Children With Autism
… understand the creative artistic expression of children with autism, it is important to know the children as whole beings. Only by truly knowing each individual child with autism is it possible to design an appropriate art lesson tailored to the child's unique learning style and needs to develop …
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Therapeutic Alliance in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children with Autism
… behaviours and treatment outcomes associated with early and late therapeutic alliance in cognitive behaviour therapy for children with autism. Data were collected from 48 children with autism (91.7% male) who demonstrated average verbal IQ. Therapists included 22 post-doctoral fellows or …
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Predicting Successful Dental Examination for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Purpose: To evaluate characteristics of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) that were associated with the ability to tolerate a dental examination following desensitization therapy. Methods: Caregivers of 168 children with ASD who attended a university-based pediatric dental clinic …
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