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Direct linkEmily 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
Taeyeop Lee; Hyeji Lee; Soowhee Kim; Kee Jeong Park; Joon-Yong An; Hyo-Won Kim – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
The aim of this study was to examine genetic variations underlying the early neurodevelopmental outcome of developmental disabilities (DDs). The study cohort consisted of 191 children with DDs. Diagnosis was assessed at baseline and at the index age (72-84 months). Exome sequencing was conducted and putative risk variants were identified.…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Children, Genetics, Risk
Broome, Kate; McCabe, Patricia; Docking, Kimberley; Doble, Maree; Carrigg, Bronwyn – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Subgroups of children with different speech profiles have been described however, little is known about the trajectories of speech development or stability of subgroups over time. This longitudinal study described both speech trajectories and subgroup stability of 22 autistic children, aged 2;0-6;11 years, over 12 months. Independent and…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Child Development, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Vocabulary Development
Hart, Chelsie M.; Curtin, Suzanne – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This longitudinal study examined how receptive and expressive vocabulary assessments capture vocabulary development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and typically developing (TD) children. Using mixed regression modelling, we explored when children with ASD significantly different from TD children. We also examined the variability…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Pictorial Stimuli, Child Development
Antonina Loncarevic; Murray T. Maybery; Josephine Barbaro; Cheryl Dissanayake; Jonathan Green; Kristelle Hudry; Teresa Iacono; Vicky Slonims; Kandice J. Varcin; Ming Wai Wan; John Wray; Andrew J. O. Whitehouse – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
The importance of supporting parent-child interactions has been noted in the context of prodromal autism, but little consideration has been given to the possible contributing role of parental characteristics, such as psychological distress. This cross-sectional study tested models in which parent-child interaction variables mediated relations…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Family Characteristics, Child Behavior
Zehra Al Fahdawi; Cheryl Dissanayake; Ifrah Abdullahi; The Victorian ASELCC Team – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Children typically learn by attending to other people. Autism traits may impact access to social stimuli fundamental to early learning, increasing children's likelihood of a learning disability. Recent reports have highlighted that Autistic children from minority backgrounds have a higher likelihood of co-occurring intellectual disability. This…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Child Development, Cultural Differences
Melanie Labusch; Manuel Perea; Rosa Sahuquillo-Leal; Isabel Bofill-Moscardó; Ángel Carrasco-Tornero; Antonio Cañada-Pérez; Ana García-Blanco – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
A potential underlying mechanism associated with the difficulties in social interactions in Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) concerns the abnormal development of moral reasoning. The present study examined utilitarian and deontological judgments in impersonal and personal moral dilemmas, comparing 66 individuals with ASD and 61 typically…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Decision Making
Daniel Berends; Catherine A. Bent; Giacomo Vivanti; Cheryl Dissanayake; Kristelle Hudry – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Purpose: While research indicates that both the core features of autism and associated developmental skills influence adaptive behaviour outcomes, results to date suggest greater influence of the latter than the former, and little attention has been given to how the interaction of both together might impact functional disability. Seeking to expand…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Skill Development, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Child Behavior
Beaudoin, Marie-Joëlle; Poirier, Nathalie; Nader-Grosbois, Nathalie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Mother-child emotion-related conversations, as a practice of parental socialization of emotion, can help children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) develop socio-emotional skills. This study intends to explore relationships between mother-child conversations about emotions and socio-emotional skills of children with ASD by accounting for the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Emotional Development, Social Development
Piedad Rocío Lerma Castaño; Diana Paola Montealegre Suárez; Elizabeth Roldán González; Carolina Robledo-Castro; Christian Hederich-Martínez; Heidy Paola Garzón Cadena; Paola Andrea Samudio Vargas; Leidy Constanza González Montenegro – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Research shows many positive effects from physical exercise. The present study examined the impact of a structured physical exercise program compared to treatment as usual on the gross motor skills of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Participants included 20 children, from 4 to 7 years old, who were assigned to two groups;…
Descriptors: Exercise, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development
Alexander Acosta; Edward Khokhlovich; Helena Reis; Andrey Vyshedskiy – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of dietary factors on developmental trajectories in young autistic children. Methods: A gluten-free and casein-free diets, as well as six types of food (meat and eggs, vegetables, uncooked vegetables, sweets, bread, and "white soft bread that never molds") were…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Children, Dietetics, Eating Habits
Ya-Chih Chang; Stephanie Shire; Wendy Shih; Connie Kasari – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Play is critical in the development of cognitive and language skills in young children with autism; however, few studies have examined the impact of the intervention on the development of play skills. The current study aims to address the change in developmental skills, including play after participation in the JASPER intervention, and to examine…
Descriptors: Child Development, Play, Outcomes of Education, Early Intervention
Jiménez, Eva; Haebig, Eileen; Hills, Thomas T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
This study compares the lexical composition of 118 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) aged 12 to 84 months with 4626 vocabulary-matched typically developing toddlers with and without language delay, aged 8 to 30 months. Children with ASD and late talkers showed a weaker noun bias. Additionally, differences were identified in the…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Child Development
Reynolds, Jess E.; Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Alvares, Gail A.; Waddington, Hannah; Macaskill, Ella; Licari, Melissa K. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
This study aimed to explore the rates of motor difficulties in children from the Australian Autism Biobank, and how early motor concerns impacted on children functionally. Children with autism aged 2-7 years, including 441 with a Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS-II) motor subscale and 385 with a Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) fine…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Psychomotor Skills, Young Children
Sophie Carruthers; Tony Charman; Kathy Leadbitter; Ceri Ellis; Lauren Taylor; Heather Moore; Carol Taylor; Kirsty James; Matea Balabanovska; Sophie Langhorne; Catherine Aldred; Vicky Slonims; Vicki Grahame; Patricia Howlin; Helen McConachie; Jeremy Parr; Richard Emsley; Ann Le Couteur; Jonathan Green; Andrew Pickles; PACT-G Trial Group – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
We investigated autistic children's generalisation of social communication over time across three settings during a play-based assessment with different adults and explore the potential moderating effects on generalisation of age, nonverbal IQ and level of restricted and repetitive behaviours. The social communication abilities of 248 autistic…
Descriptors: Generalization, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Skills
