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McCabe, Allyssa; Hillier, Ashleigh; DaSilva, Christiana; Queenan, Alexa; Tauras, Mary – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2017
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) produce impoverished personal narratives. We developed an intervention to improve parental talk with their son/daughter with ASD which would thereby improve the child's narration. In this pilot study, we randomly assigned parents to an intervention group who received information about the importance…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Personal Narratives, Intervention
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Smith, Leann E.; Seltzer, Marsha Mailick; Greenberg, Jan S. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Health symptoms of mothers of adolescents and adults with fragile X syndrome (FXS; n = 112) were compared to a nationally-representative sample of mothers of similarly-aged children without disabilities (n = 230) as well as to a sample of mothers of adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD; n = 96). Health symptoms experienced in…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Comparative Analysis, Children, Diaries
Richardson, Lolita Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the relationship between repetitive behaviors and sensory behavior to the parenting stress of mothers of boys with fragile X syndrome and mothers of boys with autism. Participants consisted of two groups: 51 mothers with boys diagnosed with fragile X syndrome (M = 71.3, SD = 56.5) and 30 mothers with boys diagnosed with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Autism, Child Rearing, Sensory Experience
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Lewis, P.; Abbeduto, L.; Murphy, M.; Richmond, E.; Giles, N.; Bruno, L.; Schroeder, S.; Anderson, J.; Orsmond, G. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2006
Background: Research on parental well-being has focused largely on Down syndrome and autism; however, fragile X syndrome is likely to pose different challenges for parents compared with these other diagnostic conditions. Moreover, there is considerable variability among youth with fragile X syndrome; for example, 25% to 33% of affected youth meet…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mothers, Down Syndrome, Autism