The prevalence of intellectual disability has risen in WA over the last 10 years with most of this increase due to mild or moderate intellectual disability ...

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• 2016
• May 2016

Increases in ASD was not only limited to advancing paternal or maternal age alone but also to differences parental age including younger or older similarly age ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2016
• May 2016

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

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• 2013
• September 2013

Fetal head circumference (HC) growth was examined prospectively in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ...

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• 2011
• January 2011

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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• 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. ...

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• 2022
• January 2022

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

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

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

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

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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 ...

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• 2019
• November 2019

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

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• 2019
• December 2019