Social Skills Groups Social skills groups provide children with an opportunity to interact and engage with their peers at the same, or similar, levels of development. Read More Parent and Sibling Training and Support We provide support for your family as you navigate through a wide range of emot...
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Social skills groups provide children with an opportunity to interact and engage with their peers at the same, or similar, levels of development. Read More Parent and Sibling Training and Support We provide support for your family as you navigate through a wide range of emotional and psychol...
Participation in the furry fandom is clearly a deeply rewarding activity for many on the autism spectrum, providing the kind of opportunities for social connection, skill-building, increased self-confidence, and just a general good time that are often all too rare in their lives otherwise. Barrier...
The predicted pathways for the synthesis of propionate, another SCFA, appears depleted in the ASD cohort (Fig. 2C). This pathway generates isopropanol as a by-product, which has recently been found at a greater concentration in the feces of children with autism (34). (iii) Sulfur pathway....
Lotter (1978), in his review of early follow-up studies noted that “among the children with the best outcome, there are very few girls”. Subsequent follow-up studies have also suggested that, compared with males, women seem to have poorer social and employment outcomes, higher rates of mo...
Rather, these groups face social barriers such as language, cultural stigma, lack of access to family doctors and a reluctance to challenge medical opinion. Such factors often prevent them from getting timely help for their children. “Very often, depending on the culture, people take the word ...
Participant 82 here identifies the importance of discussing disability at school level, indicating not only the value of spreading awareness of disability, but doing so for children at a young age. However, research has shown that giving information about autism to raise awareness is not enough ...
Another reason for depression is the experience of being bullied. Studies have suggested that a majority of those with AS experience bullying. This isn’t surprising given the drive towards conformity and the emphasis on social status among middle school children in particular, but also among high...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by persistent social interaction impairments and is male-biased in prevalence. We have established naturally occurring low sociality in male rhesus monkeys as a model for the social features of ASD. Low-soc