NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chen, Cai-Yi; Yang, Hsiu-Ching; Liu, Meng-Jung; Chu, Shin Ying; Lin, Ling-Yi – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2023
A social skills training has previously resulted in positive improvements in social skills among children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This pilot study developed a play-based social skills training protocol for first-grade elementary children with ASD in Taiwan and determined its efficacy. Using a single-group…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Play, Skill Development, Grade 1
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lindly, Olivia J.; Shui, Amy M.; Stotts, Noa M.; Kuhlthau, Karen A. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Elevated caregiver strain is common and linked to poor health in parents of children with autism. Yet, little research has examined caregiver strain longitudinally and in geographically diverse samples of parents whose children have autism. This study aimed to (1) examine change in caregiver strain and (2) determine correlates of improved…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Stress Variables, Parent Attitudes, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zaidman-Zait, Anat – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Parenting is a cognitive, emotional, and behavioral endeavor, where parents' control capacities, including executive functions and active control coping, help parents to guide and regulate interactions with their children; yet limited research investigates how these capacities are associated with parent-child affective regulation processes during…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Executive Function
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Mira, Álvaro; Berenguer, Carmen; Roselló, Belén; Baixauli, Inmaculada; Miranda, Ana – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
This study aimed to identify different profiles of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) without intellectual disability (ID) and maternal factors characteristic of these profiles. Participants were 89 children between 7 and 11 years old and their mothers, distributed in two groups, 52 children with ASD and 37 with typical development (TD).…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Mothers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Valenti, Marco; Ciprietti, Tiziana; Di Egidio, Claudia; Gabrielli, Maura; Masedu, Francesco; Tomassini, Anna Rita; Sorge, Germana – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
The literature offers no descriptions of the adaptive outcomes of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) after natural disasters. Aim of this study was to evaluate the adaptive behaviour of participants with ASD followed for 1 year after their exposure to the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila (Italy) compared with an unexposed peer group with ASD,…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Autism, Adolescents, Peer Groups
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Ebersöhn, L.; Eloff, I.; Finestone, M.; van Dullemen, I.; Sikkema, K.; Forsyth, B. – South African Journal of Education, 2012
In this article we describe how using a visual, child-friendly measure of resilience in a randomised control trial (RCT), the Kgolo Mmogo (KM) project, resulted in representative insights on resilience in a mother-child relationship where the mother is HIV-positive. We used the existing psychological method Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD) to measure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Randomized Controlled Trials
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lloyd, Tracey; Hastings, Richard P. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2009
Background: Psychological mechanisms may help to explain the variance observed in parental psychological adjustment in parents of children with intellectual disability (ID). In this study, parental locus of control and its role in relation to maternal psychological well-being was explored. Method: Questionnaires were sent to 91 mothers of children…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Mothers, Mental Retardation, Parents