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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"insistence on sameness"”.
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The Longitudinal Association between Anxiety and Restricted/ Repetitive Behaviour in Autism Spectrum Disorder
… The core symptoms include (1) social communication deficits and (2) restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour. Autistic children experience high rates of co-occurring anxiety; anxiety disorders are estimated to affect 40%. Previous data suggest that restricted/repetitive behaviour severity …
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Repetitive and Stereotyped Behaviors from Age 2 to Age 4: A Look at the Development of High- and Low-Level Repetitive Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
… Low-level behavior is characterized by a repetition of movement, such as stereotyped movements, whereas high-level behavior includes insistence on sameness and rigid adherence to a routine. There is conflicting evidence frequency and severity of RRBs in early development in children with ASD. In …
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Flexibility, uncertainty and anxiety in autism
Autism is a heterogenous neurodevelopmental condition manifesting in complex interrelated features across multiple levels of explanation, from genes to systems-level brain function and all the way up to cognition, behaviour and co-occurring mental health difficulties. A prominent characteristic of …