It is not only in comparison with the general population that adults with autism fare poorly. Using data from the US National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2; n > 11,000 adults) Orsmond et al. (2013) compared rates of participation in social activities among young adults with aut...
Museums' social resources, along with their status as places of informal learning, make them well-suited to serve people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). As autistic young adults report high instances of social isolation and receive fewer services after high school, there is a clear need ...
education, AQ scores, age at the diagnosis of autism, as well as the percentage of participants with a diagnosis other than autism for each group, and group comparison.AQ = autism quotient,N-miss = number of missing data
Offending profiles of individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A study of all individuals with autism spectrum disorder examined by the forensic psychiat... This study examined the characteristics of adults with autism spectrum disorder who have undergone a forensic examination and explored any relations...
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People with autism interact with adults in many different situations on a daily basis. It is not only the strangers that they come into contact with who often find it hard to deal with the many unique behaviors they exhibit; often the people charged to be their caregivers do not understand ...
pathways, whilst most of the researchers have been looking at cognitive function (in thecerebral cortex)," she said. "So, in autism, more so even than in dyslexia, basically almost all work is being done, or has been done, in the cerebral cortex (and structures having to do with ...
Anxious worrying about performance in school may be mistaken for the effects of a Learning Disorder or a result of the social skills deficit common in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Finally, anxiety may cause children to withdraw from social engagement, again mimicking behaviors common to autism and ...
children with autism and auditory processing or comprehension difficulties adults with aphasia and comprehension difficulties following stroke or traumatic brain injury adults with cognitive-communication difficulties after stroke or brain injury Following Directions in Speech Therapy ...
subjective perceptionof autism symptoms and social interaction assessed with both standardized measures and a lab task, in 65 sex-balanced (52.24% male) autistic young adults. We also quantified ACC and amygdala volume with 7-Tesla structural neuroimaging to examine correlations with self-reported ...