Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are currently diagnosed in the presence of impairments in social interaction and communication, and a restricted range of... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2013
• September 2013

This study tested the 'Extreme Male Brain' theory & androgyny accounts of Autism spectrum disorder. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2015
• July 2015

This qualitative study of parental interviews provided a preliminary examination of whether behaviours consistent with the BAP may have been exacerbated by... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2014
• August 2014

We present a new analysis of Whitehouse, Maybery, and Durkin's (2006, Experiment 3) data on inner speech in children with autism (CWA). ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2009
• August 2009

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• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2008
• July 2008

Findings show that indicators of a poor intrauterine environment are associated with an elevated risk of ID, while for ASD, and particularly ASD without ID,... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2013
• January 2013

Naturalistic developmental behavioural interventions are promising approaches for young children with, or suspected of having, autism spectrum disorder. Joint attention, symbolic play, engagement and regulation intervention (JASPER) is a well-researched naturalistic developmental behavioural intervention but, to date, no reviews have specifically evaluated its effects. ...

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• 2021
• August 2021

Early motor impairments have been reported in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), but it is not clear if early detection of motor impairments can identify children at risk for NDD or how early such impairments might be detected. Our aim was to characterize early motor function in children later diagnosed with NDD relative to typically developing children or normative data. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2021
• February 2021

Links between temperament and social-emotional difficulties are well-established in normative child development but remain poorly characterized in autism. We sought to characterize distinct temperament subgroups and their associations with concurrent internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a sample of 103 infants showing early signs of autism. ...

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• 2020
• December 2020

Overall, we found that the regulatory variants in autism spectrum disorder cases were enriched in ASD-risk genes and genes involved in fetal neurodevelopment ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• November 2019