FOX 2 - The pandemic is hitting many people hard, but perhaps it has been even tougher for people like Aiden Harmon, who has autism. The 20-year-old was attending West Bloomfield Transitional Center when COVID-19 struck. Mother of young man with autism talks about n...
Rigidity and Need for Routine Once an autistic child has learned and mastered a particular routine, it can be very difficult for them to change it. However, in the United States, children are expected to master multiple routines at once: a home routine, a school routine, and a summer routi...
Strong need for planning and routine:Autistic adults like structure and may have a rigid routine. They may have a need to plan out the details of everything they do. Disliking change:Change can make an autistic adult feel very uncomfortable or emotional. Experiencing anxiety in social situations...
EP young adults had significantly lower scores in emotion recognition and empathy in comparison with controls; however, this effect was mediated by IQ. At 19 years, a diagnosis of autism was reported by 10% of EP participants versus 1.6% of controls, whereas 31% of EP participants scored ...
In comparison with the AQ and SCDC, our novel questionnaire captures more ASD-related features, is shorter and less theory-based. In data of 1981 adults from the Dutch general population, we then conducted GWASs of the scores for six traits, that is, the scores for 'total autistic traits'...
(EEG) from 186 adults (51% with ASD and 49% without ASD) and investigated the potential of EEG biomarkers to classify ASD using three conventional machine learning models with two-layer cross-validation. Comprehensive characterization of spectral, temporal and spatial dimensions of source-modelled ...
EP young adults had significantly lower scores in emotion recognition and empathy in comparison with controls; however, this effect was mediated by IQ. At 19 years, a diagnosis of autism was reported by 10% of EP participants versus 1.6% of controls, whereas 31% of EP participants scored ...
By using machine learning models, we sought to identify the particular contributions of individual pieces of diagnostic information (item codes from the ADOS) for the diagnosis of female and male children and young adolescents and for later diagnosis of older adolescents and adults....
With so much going on, especially in a fast-paced environment, adults with high functioning autism may find themselves breaking down. When something unpredictable occurs, it can be difficult to process the event and react to it without emotion. As a result, routine disruptions in jobs, such as...
Sam Thompson: ‘I really don’t think there is a distinction to be made between writing for adults and writing for children’ Thompson’s new book, The Forest Yet to Come, is part of the Wolfstongue saga, which began as a direct response to his son’s difficulty with speech Wed Oct ...