Autism researchers from the Telethon Kids Institute have called for the term ‘high functioning autism’ to be abandoned because of the misleading and potentially harmful expectations it creates around the abilities of children on the autism spectrum. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2019
• June

Past research has highlighted the importance of early identification of developmental differences to improve targeted access to early interventions or supports. As such, it is of particular importance in the context of children at elevated likelihood of autism (such as where an older sibling has a diagnosis of autism), to better understand when and which early concerns are important as predictors of which children will benefit from pre-diagnostic supports. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2024
• April 2024

Evidence suggests that individuals with autism spectrum disorder have increased rates of co-occurring psychosis and/or bipolar disorder. Considering the peak age of onset for psychosis and bipolar disorder occurs in adulthood, we investigated the co-occurrence of these disorders in adults with autism. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• January 2022

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

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. ...

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• 2021
• February 2021

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. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2021
• August 2021

Parent observations provide an initial framework for understanding quality of life in autism spectrum disorder ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• January 2019

Based on population data from 5 countries, the heritability of ASD was estimated to be approximately 80% ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• July 2019

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

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• November 2019

Significantly greater depth-wise facial asymmetry was identified in autistic children relative to the two comparison groups ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• December 2019