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O'Connor, Cliodhna; Burke, Judith; Rooney, Brendan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience social marginalisation. This study uses a vignette-based design to clarify whether diagnostic disclosure affects social marginalisation in workplace contexts. It investigates two potential mediators of this relationship: affective response to and theory of mind for people with ASD.…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Correlation, Adults, Autism
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Battaglia, Dana – Young Exceptional Children, 2017
This article explicitly addresses the correlation between communication and behavior, and describes how to provide intervention addressing these two overlapping domains using an intervention called functional communication training (FCT; E. G. Carr & Durand, 1985) in individuals with ASD. A step-by-step process is outlined with supporting…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Communication Skills, Intervention
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Pickles, A.; Parr, J. R.; Rutter, M. L.; De Jonge, M. V.; Wallace, S.; Le Couteur, A. S.; van Engeland, H.; Wittemeyer, K.; McConachie, H.; Roge, B.; Mantoulan, C.; Pedersen, L.; Isager, T.; Poustka, F.; Bolte, S.; Bolton, P.; Weisblatt, E.; Green, J.; Papanikolaou, K.; Bailey, A. J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
A 20 item observational measure of social functioning, the Impression of Interviewee rating scale, is one of three measures devised to assess the broader autism phenotype. The sample studied included families containing at least two individuals with autism spectrum disorder; observations were undertaken by the researcher who interviewed the…
Descriptors: Autism, Rating Scales, Interpersonal Competence, Genetics
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Choque Olsson, Nora; Bölte, Sven – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
There are few evaluated economic tools to assess change in autism. This study examined the inter-rater reliability of the Developmental Disabilities Children's Global Assessment Scale (DD-CGAS), and the OSU Autism Clinical Global Impression (OSU Autism CGI) in a European setting. Using these scales, 16 clinicians with multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Autism, Developmental Disabilities, Vignettes
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Freitag, Sara; Dunsmuir, Sandra – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2015
This study used the Theory of Planned Behaviour to explore the attitudes, behavioural intentions and behaviour of 318 mainstream primary school children in an urban East London borough towards peers with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Pupils were presented with a vignette about a hypothetical peer with ASD then completed self-report…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Behavior Theories, Attitude Measures
McKown, Clark; Allen, Adelaide M.; Russo-Ponsaran, Nicole M.; Johnson, Jason K. – Grantee Submission, 2013
Social-emotional comprehension includes the ability to encode, interpret, and reason about social-emotional information. The better developed children's social-emotional comprehension, the more positive their social interactions and the better their peer relationships. Many clinical tools exist to assess children's social behavior. In contrast,…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Cognitive Ability, Psychometrics