The article presents findings from interviews with five caregivers of children with autism excluded from schools in England. Objectives: to determine the barriers and enablers to mainstream schooling for children with autism and to explore the emotional effect of the journey to school exclusion on the...
In this study, we examine sex differences in the temporal dynamics of natural conversations between naïve adult confederates and school-aged children with or without autism, with the goal of improving our understanding of conversational behavior in autistic girls and ultimately improving identification...
Such was the case with my son. He interacted with peers and got straight A’s in school, but would use all of his emotional bandwidth. This would cycle as a period of time with success in school, followed by an increase of visible autistic behaviors, melting down at home, and then, f...
Combination photo taken on March 24, 2017 shows 6-year-old autistic child Xiao Jie (pseudonym) and his mother at Daqingshan Lake Park (upper) and Xiao Jie's painting about his wish to travel frequently with his parents (lower) in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province. April...
Participants sometimes pointed out that many people in the furry community have had some experience of social exclusion or marginalization, and this often inspires furries to be accepting of others, including those whose social behavior comes across as unusual. ...
Studies of preschool and school-age children using machine learning (ML) of eye-tracking data reported encouraging findings for the use of eye-tracking for distinguishing autistic and neurotypical children11,12. However, because autism has a heterogeneous presentation involving multiple behavioral signs,...
Behaviorally, some studies show that autistic girls and women appear more socially or emotionally competent than they actually are [26, 27]. For example, teachers have reported substantially fewer concerns about social skills in school-aged autistic girls compared to boys, in part because girls "...
and SB. The pool of studies identified based on screening titles, abstracts, and consultations with senior authors determined the inclusion and exclusion criteria. At this stage, articles were included if they: (1) reported on co-occurring physical health conditions in people with a diagnosis of ...
Data were screened for missing values, outliers, and multicollinearity for each participant group independently. Following the exclusion of two autistic cases with missing data on all subscales within the SBS-III, a total of 295 participants were retained. No outliers were identified in the dataset...
The novelty of the study and findings, robust methods, meticulous exclusion of case-control designs (eTable 9 in Supplement 1) identifying potential moderators (eg, age) of the explored associations, and examining differences between groups with autism vs control groups without autism in relevant ...