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Luisier, Anne-Claude; Petitpierre, Genevieve; Clerc Bérod, Annick; Garcia-Burgos, David; Bensafi, Moustafa – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
This study assessed whether olfactory familiarization can render food odors more pleasant, and consequently food more attractive, to children with autism spectrum disorder. Participants were first presented with a series of food odors (session 1). Then, they were familiarized on four occasions (time window: 5 weeks) with one of the two most…
Descriptors: Olfactory Perception, Familiarity, Child Behavior, Food
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Meirsschaut, Mieke; Roeyers, Herbert; Warreyn, Petra – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
In this study the social behaviour of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their mothers is compared within two different dyads: a dyad consisting of a mother and her own child and a dyad consisting of a mother and an unfamiliar child. Mothers did not change the frequency of their social initiatives and responsiveness with an…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Mothers
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McGregor, Karla K.; Rost, Gwyneth; Arenas, Rick; Farris-Trimble, Ashley; Stiles, Derek – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Many children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) struggle to understand familiar words and learn unfamiliar words. We explored the extent to which these problems reflect deficient use of probabilistic gaze in the extra-linguistic context. Method: Thirty children with ASD and 43 with typical development (TD) participated in a spoken…
Descriptors: Children, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Word Recognition