Identifying autism in children from ethnic minoritiesMany children on the autism spectrum from ethnic minorities are not being diagnosed properly, and their families often struggle to gain support. Dr M...
Background: Anecdotal reports suggest that the presence of behaviours indicative of autism (AD) are displayed at a very early age, with nearly half (31-51%) of all children with AD displaying abnormalities within the first year of life (Gray & Tonge, 2001). Despite this acknowledgment, a ...
The Autism Detection in Early Childhood (ADEC) is a brief, play-based screening tool for the assessment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children aged 12–36months. We examined the psychometric properties of the ADEC in a clinical sample of toddlers ( n =114) referred to a US ...
Background: Increasing efforts have been focused on providing a quality education for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) after identifying them at an early stage. Preschool teachers play a major role in the main ASD identification system as they represent the gatekeepers to identify and re...
Until recently, intervention research for young children with autism has been strongly criticized because of the paucity of well controlled comparative studies and particularly the lack of randomized control trials (RCT's). Over the last decade, however, there has been a steady improvement of the ...
This study investigated written language production in 10‐year‐old children with impaired reading comprehension. Despite fluent and accurate reading, the... L Cragg,K Nation - 《Educational Psychology》 被引量: 131发表: 2006年 Teaching Children with Autism to Read for Meaning: Challenges and Poss...
Twice exceptional children are those whose demonstrated performance falls in both directions of the learning spectrum. They demonstrate superior ability in one or more areas, and also have one or more disabilities. They may be gifted with serious emotion
The aim of this study was to evaluate the use in Iran of a rating scale for autism commonly used in western society. A Persian translation of the GARS was completed by parents of 658 children: 442 who had been diagnosed with Autism; 112 intellectually disabled and 102 normally developing. ...
Then choose the sentence that states the main idea.Autism can take some time to diagnose. An autistic child's parents are usually the first to notice something different about their son or daughter. They may notice that their child behaves differently from other children the same age, for ...
Autism can take some time to diagnose. An autistic child's parents are usually the first to notice something different about their son or daughter. They may notice that their child behaves differently from other children the same age, for example, in the way he or she communicates with ...