How should we detect autism in adults?BLAND, PHILLIPPractitioner
This finding gives us a new awareness of how parents, clinicians and educators can identify early signs of autism in children's development. It can help parents of autistic children understand why their child's patterns of speech, and how they respond to other people, may be different to neur...
Early diagnosis can make a huge difference in the lives of children withautism spectrum disorder(ASD) and their families. But it’s not always easy to make an ASD diagnosis. There’s no lab test for it, so doctors rely on observing the behaviors of very young children and listening to th...
Adults with an autism spectrum disorder, who may have trouble talking about themselves and interacting socially, don't always make good impressions in job interviews and have low employment rates. A new human simulation training program—based on software originally used to train FBI agents—helps ...
It's more common for women to bediagnosedin adulthood and a lot of adults aren’t diagnosed or don’t identify their neurodivergent traits and processes until later on in life and have been used to "masking" (hiding your true feelings and behaviours and learning to act like everyone around...
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A recentsurveyfound that many GPs in the UK are not confident in their ability to identifyautism. And compensatory strategies are now thought to be one of the main reasons fordifficulty with diagnosis in adults. Yet there is little guidance for doctors on detecting these strategies, and for pa...
[Proquest], Scopus, and PubMed) were selected to cover the broad range of disciplines relevant to autism research. A comprehensive range of search terms were used to identify studies which included autistic people as a subgroup (i.e. where the focus of the study was on different conditions,...
Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism: research concerns and emerging foci Recent findings: Children, adolescents, and even adults with Asperger syndrome/high functioning autism appear to be deficient in social skills that involve ... J Blacher,B Kraemer,M Schalow - 《Current Opinion in Psy...
Learn more:common signs of autism in toddlers and solutions good parenting skills & their benefits to the child 2. Speak Calmly Not only in cases of toddler tantrums but others in daily life should you speakcalmlyto deal with any problems. It sounds like easy but the fact is different becau...