Early developmental trajectories of expressive vocabulary and gesture production in a longitudinal cohort of Italian infants at high‐risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Riva ◽  
Angela Caruso ◽  
Fabio Apicella ◽  
Giovanni Valeri ◽  
Stefano Vicari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Expressive Vocabulary ◽  
Longitudinal Cohort ◽  
Early Developmental ◽  
Gesture Production

Developmental trajectories of adaptive behavior in autism spectrum disorder: a high‐risk sibling cohort

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 697-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori‐Ann R. Sacrey ◽  
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum ◽  
Susan Bryson ◽  
Jessica Brian ◽  
Isabel M. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Adaptive Behavior ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder

scholarly journals For which younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder does parent-mediated intervention work?

Autism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136236132094337
Author(s):  
Paul J Yoder ◽  
Wendy L Stone ◽  
Sarah R Edmunds
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
Expressive Vocabulary ◽  
Intentional Communication ◽  
Intervention Level ◽  
Related Stress

In this second of two primary papers, we examined moderators of treatment effects for younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders whose parents were taught to use a parent-implemented intervention called “Improving Parents As Communication Teachers”. Investigators randomized 97 high-risk siblings and their primary parent to either the Improving Parents As Communication Teachers or control group, used intent-to-treat analysis, and used assessors and coders who were blinded to group assignment. We hypothesized that a cumulative risk score (incorporating younger siblings’ sex, multiplex status, and behavioral risk) would moderate the effect of Improving Parents As Communication Teachers on younger siblings’ proximal skills related to their continuously measured communication challenges. Pre-intervention level of parents’ depressive symptoms was the proposed moderator of Improving Parents As Communication Teachers on parenting-related stress and parenting efficacy. In high-risk siblings with no additional risk factors (i.e. girls with only one older sibling with autism spectrum disorder and who score at low risk on an autism spectrum disorder screen), parental receipt of Improving Parents As Communication Teachers training had indirect effects on children’s expressive language ability or autism spectrum disorder diagnosis through earlier effects on high-risk siblings’ intentional communication or expressive vocabulary. “Improving Parents As Communication Teachers” intervention did not show moderated or total effects on parenting-related stress or parenting efficacy. Lay Abstract In this second of two primary papers, we examined two pre-intervention characteristics that might describe for whom a parent-implemented intervention, “Improving Parents As Communication Teachers,” worked. Investigators randomized 97 high-risk siblings and their primary parent to either the Improving Parents As Communication Teachers or control group, used intent-to-treat analysis, and used assessors and coders who were blinded to group assignment. We predicted that a combined risk score (incorporating young siblings’ sex, multiplex status, and behavioral risk) would describe the subgroup for whom Improving Parents As Communication Teachers affected the targeted skills related to reducing communication challenges. We also predicted that pre-intervention level of parents’ depressive symptoms would describe the parents whose parenting stress and effectiveness as parents would be improved by learning to use Improving Parents As Communication Teachers. In girls with only one older sibling with autism spectrum disorder and who scored at low risk on an autism spectrum disorder screen, parental receipt of Improving Parents As Communication Teachers training had an indirect effect on children’s expressive language ability or autism spectrum disorder diagnosis through earlier effects on high-risk siblings’ intentional communication or expressive vocabulary. We did not confirm our prediction regarding Improving Parents As Communication Teachers’ effect on parenting-related stress or sense of parenting effectiveness.

scholarly journals The frequency, variation, and semantic integration of co-speech gesture production in verbal adolescents diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renáta Longauerová
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Verbal Working Memory ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Semantic Integration ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Frequency Variation ◽  
Animated Cartoon ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Gesture Production ◽  
Adolescents With Asd

Gestures play an important role in communication, but for populations with atypical language development, gestures are often an area of significant difficulty, especially for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Research on younger children with ASD show a significant delay in gesture production, as well as a complete absence of certain types of gestures. However, previous work leaves open the question of whether the frequency and variation of gesture production is impaired also in adolescents with ASD. Moreover, very little is known about the semantic integration of speech and gesture in this population. In the present study, 5 adolescents with ASD and 5 typically-developing adolescents completed a narrative task, in which they were asked to retell a story of 4 animated cartoon clips. The results show that while there is no significant difference between the two groups in the frequency of gesture production and the types of gestures they produce, the frequency of gesture production in the individuals with ASD significantly depends on their verbal working memory skills. Moreover, it seems that many impairments that were confirmed by earlier studies for ASD children in early and late childhood seem to be mere delays that get resolved over time, such as the usage of supplementary gestures.

scholarly journals Parental Occupation in Pre and Postnatal among Autism Spectrum Disorder

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Smily Jesupriya Victor Paulraj ◽  
Siti Nur Azalia Mohamad Salleh ◽  
Jayachandran Vetrayan
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Parental Occupation ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Open Access Article

This study aimed to examine the parental occupation in pre and post-natal among Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and to identify the desired factors to work. The 124 samples ages between 26 to 52 years old including 59 males and 65 females from 5 difference rehabilitation centres were recruited. A self-rated parental occupation questionnaire was used to measure. Finding shows the parent who works in the high professionals and technicals has a high risk of having ASD. The factors which contribute to the desired parents to work in that field are earning more money, knowledge development and satisfying basic needs.© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Parental occupation; Autism spectrum disorder; Prenatal; Post-natal

scholarly journals Resistance to temptation in toddlers at genetic risk for autism spectrum disorder

Autism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1018-1027
Author(s):  
Susan B Campbell ◽  
Jessie B Northrup ◽  
Amy B Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Low Risk ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
High Risk Children

Children with autism spectrum disorder often demonstrate difficulties with self-regulation, although studies of this construct in young children with autism spectrum disorder are limited. In this study, developmental changes were examined using a measure of self-regulation appropriate for young children, resistance to temptation. At 22, 28, and 34 months, toddlers with an older sibling with autism spectrum disorder (high risk) and toddlers with typically developing older siblings (low risk) were presented with an appealing toy and instructed not to touch it. Observers coded whether or not children touched the toy and the strategies they used to resist touching it. At 36 months, children were assessed for autism spectrum disorder, yielding three groups: high risk children with autism spectrum disorder, high risk children without autism spectrum disorder, and low risk children. At 22 months, most children, regardless of group, touched the forbidden toy; at 28 and 34 months, many high risk children without autism spectrum disorder and low risk children resisted the temptation to touch the toy, whereas most of the children with autism spectrum disorder did not. Differences in delay strategies were also evident. Some, but not all group differences, were accounted for by differences in language ability. Results highlight one early index of impulse control that differentiates children with emerging autism spectrum disorder from age-mates prior to the third birthday.

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