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Morgan L. McNair; Victoria Mondejar; Erin J. Libsack; Nicole H. Mordekai; Clark McKown; Nicole M. Russo-Ponsaran; Matthew D. Lerner – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Social problem solving (SPS) represents a social cognitive reasoning process that gives way to behavior when individuals are navigating challenging social situations. Autistic individuals have been shown to struggle with specific aspects of SPS, which, in turn, has been related to social difficulties in children. However, no previous work has…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Social Problems
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Emily Fourie; Szu-Ching Lu; Jonathan Delafield-Butt; Susan M. Rivera – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Autistic individuals often exhibit motor atypicalities, which may relate to difficulties in social communication. This study utilized a smart tablet activity to computationally characterize motor control by testing adherence to the two-thirds power law (2/3 PL), which captures a systematic covariation between velocity and curvature in motor…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Psychomotor Skills
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Hepburn, Susan L.; DiGuiseppi, Carolyn; Rosenberg, Steven; Kaparich, Kristina; Robinson, Cordelia; Miller, Lisa – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
Given a rising prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), this project aimed to develop and pilot test various teacher nomination strategies to identify children at risk for ASD in a timely, reliable, cost-effective manner. Sixty participating elementary school teachers evaluated 1323 children in total. Each teacher nominated students who most…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Screening Tests, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Student Evaluation