The study was published in the journalScientific Reports. "Our study provides evidence that the social difficulties faced by people with autism are exacerbated by how they are perceived by other people," said Sasson, an associate professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at UT Dall...
One of the most significant problems forautistic peopleis difficulty in social interaction. The level of difficulty can be intense, as it usually is for people with no spoken language, or it can be relatively mild. However, even mild difficulties with social communication can lead to major probl...
This is a critical consideration, as the social– emotional challenges faced by autistic individuals in day- to-day life are more complex than static pictures; they are embedded within a rich, dynamic social context. Prior research assessing autistic participants' abilities to describe what an ...
more broadly, to understand the role of social content in flexibility difficulties in autism during emotional situations. To this end, we developed a new task based on the EST (referred to as EST-2) that includes both social and
all the allistic peers in a class participated in an adult-facilitated session, in which they discussed friendship and the focal autistic child’s strengths and difficulties (without the focal child’s presence), and afterwards the allistic peers who volunteered were included in the peer network...
seeming indifferent to other people preferring being alone preferring playing alone not initiate contact These social interaction deficits in autism may cause the child to have difficulties in social situations. Their peers may not understand them, causing the autistic child to be outcast. ...
People with ASD are typically characterized by difficulties in communicative and social interaction skills24, including poor eye contact25 and altered processing of facial information and intentions26. They have atypical attentional processes27,28,29,30 and show a social aversion, that seems to be hum...
The present study was designed to test the relative weight of different types of category markers in children’s representations of social and biological kinds. We reasoned that in order to efficiently navigate through the mesh network of overlapping soc
difficulties in socialising and making friends, they were less involved in social activities, they preferred to be alone, and they did not believe that their relationships with others were as meaningful. Nevertheless, they reported similar motivation to form friendships as their non-autistic peers (...
Preschool Staff Spot Social Communication Difficulties, But Not Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Young Autistic ChildrenAutism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, SRS-2, Preschool, Teacher informants, Child developmentTo fulfill the criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), symptoms must be present across...