There is insufficient evidence to draw conclusions on the efficacy of modified diets, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, immune therapy, and vitamin and fatty acid... ...

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• 2013
• May 2013

Melissa Gail Jenny Andrew Licari Alvares Downs Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew ML GA JA AJ PhD PhD BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD PhD Senior ...

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Birth order effects have been linked to variability in intelligence, educational attainment and sexual orientation. First- and later-born children have been linked to an increased likelihood of an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis, with a smaller body of evidence implicating decreases in cognitive functioning with increased birth order. The present study investigated the potential association between birth order and ASD diagnostic phenotypes in a large and representative population sample. ...

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• 2020
• November 2020

A pre-emptive intervention for the autism spectrum disorder prodrome had no immediate treatment effect on early autism spectrum disorder symptoms ...

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• 2019
• September 2019

Natural Language Sampling (NLS) offers clear potential for communication and language assessment, where other data might be difficult to interpret. We leveraged existing primary data for 18-month-olds showing early signs of autism, to examine the reliability and concurrent construct validity of NLS-derived measures coded from video-of child language, parent linguistic input, and dyadic balance of communicative interaction-against standardised assessment scores. Using Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) software and coding conventions, masked coders achieved good-to-excellent inter-rater agreement across all measures. ...

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• 2023
• January 2023

Social attention can be acutely modified in children with ASD, with an increased tendency to orient attention toward faces after brief social attention training ...

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• 2019
• March 2019

Language key to autism inclusivity We know words matter and now new research looking at autism terminology has shone the spotlight on what autistic ...

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• 2023
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Our previous cross-sectional investigation (Chetcuti et al., 2020) showed that infants with autism traits could be divided into distinct subgroups based on temperament. This longitudinal study builds on this existing work by exploring the continuity of temperament subgroup classifications and their associations with behavioral/clinical phenotypic features from infancy to toddlerhood. ...

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• 2022
• December 2022

We review medical conditions that have been repeatedly highlighted as sharing the strongest associations with ASD-epilepsy, sleep, as well as gastrointestinal and immune functioning ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

An existing randomised controlled trial was used to investigate whether multiple ultrasound scans may be associated with the autism phenotype. ...

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• 2012
• March 2012