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Individual Differences in Multisensory Attention Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Predict Language and Symptom Severity: Evidence from the Multisensory Attention Assessment Protocol (MAAP)
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Todd, James Torrence; Bahrick, Lorraine E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show atypical attention, particularly for social events. The new Multisensory Attention Assessment Protocol (MAAP) assesses fine-grained individual differences in attention disengagement, maintenance, and audiovisual matching for social and nonsocial events. We investigated the role of competing…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Multisensory Learning, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Selective Impairment of Basic Emotion Recognition in People with Autism: Discrimination Thresholds for Recognition of Facial Expressions of Varying Intensities
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Song, Yongning; Hakoda, Yuji – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by early onset qualitative impairments in reciprocal social development. However, whether individuals with ASD exhibit impaired recognition of facial expressions corresponding to basic emotions is debatable. To investigate subtle deficits in facial emotion recognition, we asked 14 children…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Social Development, Nonverbal Communication
Vicarious Effort-Based Decision-Making in Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Mosner, Maya G.; Kinard, Jessica L.; McWeeny, Sean; Shah, Jasmine S.; Markiewitz, Nathan D.; Damiano-Goodwin, Cara R.; Burchinal, Margaret R.; Rutherford, Helena J. V.; Greene, Rachel K.; Treadway, Michael T.; Dichter, Gabriel S. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
This study investigated vicarious effort-based decision-making in 50 adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) compared to 32 controls using the Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task. Participants made choices to win money for themselves or for another person. When choosing for themselves, the ASD group exhibited relatively similar patterns…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Decision Making, Adolescents
Speaker-Versus Listener-Oriented Disfluency: A Re-Examination of Arguments and Assumptions from Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Engelhardt, Paul E.; Alfridijanta, Oliver; McMullon, Mhairi E. G.; Corley, Martin – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
We re-evaluate conclusions about disfluency production in high-functioning forms of autism spectrum disorder (HFA). Previous studies examined individuals with HFA to address a theoretical question regarding speaker- and listener-oriented disfluencies. Individuals with HFA tend to be self-centric and have poor pragmatic language skills, and should…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Individual Differences, Comparative Analysis
Temperament and Sensory Features of Children with Autism
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Brock, M. E.; Freuler, A.; Baranek, G. T.; Watson, L. R.; Poe, M. D.; Sabatino, A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
This study sought to characterize temperament traits in a sample of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ages 3-7 years old, and to determine the potential association between temperament and sensory features in ASD. Individual differences in sensory processing may form the basis for aspects of temperament and personality, and aberrations…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Developmental Delays, Autism, Personality Traits
Young Friendship in HFASD and Typical Development: Friend versus Non-Friend Comparisons
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Bauminger-Zviely, Nirit; Agam-Ben-Artzi, Galit – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
This study conducted comparative assessment of friendship in preschoolers with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HFASD, n = 29) versus preschoolers with typical development (n = 30), focusing on interactions with friends versus acquaintances. Groups were matched on SES, verbal/nonverbal MA, IQ, and CA. Multidimensional assessments…
Descriptors: Friendship, Comparative Analysis, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Inhibitory Control in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Christ, Shawn E.; Holt, Daniel D.; White, Desiree A.; Green, Leonard – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Impairments in executive abilities such as cognitive flexibility have been identified in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It remains unclear, however, whether such individuals also experience impairments in another executive ability: inhibitory control. In the present study, we administered three inhibitory tasks to 18 children…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Siblings, Autism, Cognitive Processes
Early Indicators of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Second Year of Life
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Wetherby, Amy M.; Woods, Juliann; Allen, Lori; Cleary, Julie; Dickinson, Holly; Lord, Catherine – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2004
Three groups of 18 children were selected for this study, one group with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), one group with developmental delays in which ASD was ruled out (DD), and one group with typical development (TD), from a pool of 3026 children who were screened with the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile (CSBS…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Developmental Delays, Comparative Analysis, Behavior Rating Scales