language delayautism spectrum disorderWilliams-Beuren syndrome is among the most well-characterized microdeletion syndromes, caused by recurrent de novo microdeletions at 7q11.23 mediated by nonallelic homologous recombination between low copy repeats flanking this critical region. However, the clinical ...
Speech delay and autism spectrum behaviors are frequently associated with duplication of the 7q11.23 Williams-Beuren syndrome region. Genet Med 2007; 9: 427–441. Article PubMed Google Scholar Van der Aa N, Rooms L, Vandeweyer G, et al. Fourteen new cases contribute to the characterization ...
At the other end of spectrum, children with Asperger’s syndrome display no language delay but present with impairments in higher communication such as pragmatics (level 5). For example, children with Asperger’s are commonly less accurate in detecting the intent behind a speaker’s remark, espec...
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that presents as a spectrum with various co-morbid symptoms as well as cognitive traits. This chapter reviews diagnosis, putative etiologies, neurocognitive models, and anatomical and functional brain differences w
Patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently harbour chromosome rearrangements and segmental aneuploidies, which allow us to identify candidate genes. In a boy with mild facial dysmorphisms, speech delay and ASD, we reconstructed by karyotyping, FISH and SNP array-based segmental aneuploidy...
Designed for individuals on the Autism spectrum who are non-verbal or have minimal verbal skills due to a motor speech planning disorder such as apraxia. Children with apraxia of speech have difficulty planning speech movements of the tongue, lips, palate and jaw (articulators), hindering their ...
A. et al. Multisensory speech perception in autism spectrum disorder: From phoneme to whole-word perception. Autism Res. 10, 1280–1290 (2017). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Foxe, J. J. et al. Severe multisensory speech integration deficits in high-functioning school-aged ...
They can include different kinds of therapies to improve speech and behavior, and sometimesmedicationsto help manage any medical conditions related to autism. The treatments your child can benefit from most depends on their situation and needs, but the goal is the same: to reduce their symptoms ...
but Hugo also had speech and language sessions cancelled and both children could only leave the house once per day for walks or a visit to the local park. Due to the nature of telehealth, training was able to continue with minimal, if any, impact on the progress of the study. However,...
global developmental delay (GDD), etc. [12]. ASD usually has some comorbidities, such as GDD [13]. GDD is defined as a delay in two or more developmental domains of gross/fine motor, speech/language, cognition, social/personal, and activities of daily living, affecting children under the ...