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Olive Healy; Elaine Reilly; Joanna Davies; Victoria Lovett; Phil Reed – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Primary reflexes are highly stereotypical, automatic movements comprising much of the motor repertoire of newborns. The current study examined rates of presence of five primary reflexes (snout, visual rooting, sucking, tactile rooting, and grasp) and variables predictive of their persistence for children with ASD (n = 35), developmental disability…
Descriptors: Motor Reactions, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, Incidence
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Gale, Susan; Ozonoff, Sally; Lainhart, Janet – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2003
A study examined rates of labor induction using pitocin in 41 boys with autism and 25 matched controls with either typical development or mental retardation. There were no differences in pitocin induction rates as a function of either diagnostic group (autism vs. control) or IQ level (average vs. subaverage range). (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Autism, Birth, Child Development, Cognitive Development