Autistic girls/women experience more overall physical health challenges compared to non-autistic girls/women and to autistic boys/men. Emerging evidence suggests increased prevalence of epilepsy in autistic girls/women compared to non-autistic girls/women and to autistic boys/men. The literature also s...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is diagnosed more frequently in boys than girls, even when girls are equally symptomatic. Cutting-edge behavioral imaging has detected “camouflaging” in girls with ASD, wherein social behaviors appear superficially typical, complicating diagnosis. The present study explor...
not only in Europe, where application of the widely used weed killer is about to expire, but also in the U.S., where Monsanto has long held regulatory authorities in a choke-hold, allowing...
There are many barriers todiagnosing autism. While autism can be reliably identified in children as early as 2, most children aren’t being diagnosed until after 4 years old, meaning that crucial years of intervention and therapy are being lost. Autism diagnoses are often missed in girls and m...
1. The basic information of the included articles and their quality assessment results are presented in Table 1. Fig. 1 Flow chart of literature screening Full size image Table 1 Information and quality of studies included for the systematic review Full size table Sample source: C, community-...
“I sprinkle the powder into Bella’s morning juice and onto Mia and Gianna’s gluten free waffle breakfast sandwich,” wrote Kim Stagliano, managing editor of the Age of Autism blog and mother of three girls on the autism spectrum, in an enthusiastic post last spring. “We’ve seen some...
It occurs in approximately 6 out of every 10,000 (infantile autism) and 20 per 10000 (autism continuum) births and is four times more common in boys than girls. It has been found throughout the world in families of all racial, ethnic and social backgrounds. No known factors in the ...
We decided to chart the data by highlighting the main papers’ findings related to each research question. For this reason, we first organized the data in an Excel sheet, extracting the following information from each paper [80]: 1. AaIE (RQ1): • Author, publication year, location of ...
Figure 1. Flow chart of the Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non-randomized Designs (TREND) shows the number of participants through each stage of the study. 2.2. Procedure After the preliminary procedures described above, the research design consisted of a longitudinal study in which data...
The constant tracking & labeling of behavior is demoralizing for the individual and for the parent who has to read the data reports. I'm sure my girls hear the click click of data takers in their sleep. Me? I let the BCBAs do their book learnin' thing, then I mostly ignore them....