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Lacey Chetcuti is a Senior Research Fellow at CliniKids.
David Trembath is the Head of Autism Research and a Senior Principal Research Fellow at CliniKids
We investigated the relationship between autistic-like traits in early childhood and age at menarche in typically developing girls.
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Video technology is helping researchers learn more about the earliest features of autism, and in turn is helping families gain access to better interventions.
Alexithymia—a trait characterized by difficulties in emotion processing—is of high interest in the autism field. However, the lack of validated alexithymia measures for autistic individuals limits progress. This study aimed to address this gap by examining the psychometric properties of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire (PAQ) across autistic and non-autistic samples. Using the PAQ, we investigated how alexithymia manifests in autistic individuals and its links with poor mental health outcomes (anxiety).
Circumscribed interests encompass a range of different interests and related behaviors that can be characterized by either a high intensity but otherwise usual topic [referred to as restricted interests] or by a focus on topics that are not salient outside of autism [referred to as unusual interests].
Social communication difficulties in autism spectrum disorder have been associated with poor Theory of Mind (ToM), an ability to attribute mental states to others. Interventions using humanoid robots could improve ToM that may generalize to human-human interactions. Traditionally, ToM has been measured using the Firth-Happe Animations (FHA) task which depicts interactions between two animated triangles.
This study included five mothers of young children with autism who participated in a 12-week parent training program based on the Early Start Denver Model
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