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Chien, Yi-Ling; Tu, En-Nien; Gau, Susan Shur-Fen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
This study investigated school functioning among unaffected siblings of youths with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and identified the correlates for school maladjustment. We recruited 66 youths with a clinical diagnosis of ASD, aged 8-19, their unaffected siblings and 132 typically developing controls (TD). We found that ASD youths had poorer…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Siblings, Correlation
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Fabio, Rosa Angela; Giannatiempo, Samantha; Antonietti, Alessandro; Budden, Sarojini – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Ten Rett syndrome (RS) girls and 10 control girls executed an attentional task in which a complex stimulus was shown followed by individual stimuli presented with distractors. Participants had to discriminate previously presented stimuli from distractors. RS girls carried out the task both in a condition with the containment of stereotypies and in…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Student Attitudes, Females, Patients