autism, developmental disorder affecting physical, social, and language skills, with an onset of signs and symptoms typically before age three. The term autism (from the Greek autos, meaning “self”) was coined in 1911 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who used it to describe withdrawal ...
Second, a predictive value of Joint Attention was found for ASD symptoms at 1-year follow-up. In this cohort, no differences were found between karyotype-subtypes. In conclusion, from a very early age, SCT can be associated with an increased risk for vulnerabilities in adaptive social ...
Autism symptoms, functional impairments, and gaze fixation measured using an eye-tracker in 6-year-old childrendoi:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1250763GAZEAUTISM spectrum disordersAUTISMPRESCHOOL childrenEYE contactIntroduction: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder clinic...
Autism in 3–6-year-old children in a suburb of Goteborg, Sweden. Autism 1997; 1: 163–173. Article Google Scholar Baird G, Charman T, Baron-Cohen S, et al. A screening instrument for autism at 18 months of age: a 6-year follow-up study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2000...
Sensory symptoms have been observed since early reports of autism spectrum conditions but historically were thought to represent secondary consequences of differences in social-cognitive processing. Developmental research suggests that sensory symptoms manifest early in development and contribute unique variance ...
When DSM-III appeared 40 years ago, Infantile Autismremained the formal diagnostic classification and autism was still considered as a predominantly childhood disorder. Even in the later revision (DSM-III-R, APA1987), when the name was changed to Autistic disorder, most of the core symptoms focu...
Clinicians face multiple challenges in identifying the clinical features of autism in older adults, especially in the ways these may differ from the symptoms shown by a younger autistic individual and across a range of abilities. This can result in undiagnosed older adults failing to be identified ...
Rose Kessick’s son was one of the 12 children in the controversial Lancet study that first raised the possibility of a connection between shot and symptoms that warranted further study, and part of MMR litigation that had been dismissed. This past week - on Sunday, July 17, 2011 – the ...
I have 82 years of 24/7 experience between my 3 daughters (ages 30, 28, 24) versus a well meaning 27 year old with a BCBA degree that focused on birth to 3 and school age kids from a middle of the pack college program, likely completed online. Game. Set. Match. Parent. ...
Being an autistic child's parent, I have a bit of a network with sites on autism and Asperger's Syndrome. A story caught my eye several days ago – a 9 year old non-verbal girl called Mykaela Lynch had gone missing. She and her family were holidaying in a northern Californian location...