involved mild and nonspecific diagnoses, symptoms, and ‘superficial’ injuries, such adjustment could represent an overadjustment (although, in our analytical framework, the measure of healthcare utilization captured factors that could act as confounders, these are analytically indistinguishable from ...
But as David Kirby reported in theHuffington Postin 2009, not even National Institute of Health director Thomas Insel thought the rise in autism could be explained away by changes in diagnostic practices or “increased recognition,” so it might follow that the formerly low rates of autism among...
Mirror neurons are a class of neurons that discharge when individuals perform a given motor act and when they observe others perform that same motor act. The human mirror system is involved in understanding others’ actions and their intentions behind them, and it underlies mechanisms of ...
One girl explained: “…I sat alone in the dark up all night wondering why I didn’t get to just know all these things people seemed to have been born with. I learned it because I had no choice. I had to first be broken down to be able to rebuild myself.” Finally, many girls...
Of interest here is this participant’s suggestion that being around an individual with autism involves some form of act; something that is a learned skill, that they have developed due to their years of experience. This is in line with the social model of disability which posits that autist...
More complex models that included responder status, age and their interaction were found that explained group equipment use for both solicited motor play (χ²(3) = 12.3, P = 0.006) and cooperative play (χ²(3) = 8.24, P = 0.04) where older children who were stress responders had th...
Susan Boyle, the singer who rose to fame after her audition on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009. She was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome in 2012 after previously being told that she had brain damage. She said that the diagnosis was a relief and that it explained why she had difficulties...
explained common variances were then calculated for potential models as extra indicators of the feasibility of bifactor models, but hierarchicalΩvalues were not greater than 0.8 for most of the models tested, and explained common variances were not greater than 0.7 (refs.71,72,73) for any of ...
it was not possible for us to investigate the variance explained by the PRSs in our target sample. However, based on previous studies38,39, it could be expected that our PRSs potentially explain little variance in the phenotype (≈1.5–3.0%), a limitation that could be overcome with future...
These disturbances are not better explained by intellectual developmental disorder (intellectual disability) or global developmental delay. Intellectual developmental disorder and ASD frequently co-occur. To make comorbid diagnoses of ASD and intellectual developmental disorder, social communication should be bel...