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Cholemkery, Hannah; Medda, Juliane; Lempp, Thomas; Freitag, Christine M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
To reduce phenotypic heterogeneity of Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and add to the current diagnostic discussion this study aimed at identifying clinically meaningful ASD subgroups. Cluster analyses were used to describe empirically derived groups based on the Autism Diagnostic Interview-revised (ADI-R) in a large sample of n = 463 individuals…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Multivariate Analysis, Children
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Klein-Tasman, Bonita P.; Risi, Susan; Lord, Catherine E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
The ADOS characterizes socio-communicative deficits in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In this study the effect of module choice on ADOS classification was examined. For 74 participants (52 autism, 22 PDD-NOS), Module 1 and Module 2 were administered in a single session. Fifty-one participants maintained ADOS classification, with 17 more impaired…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Classification, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Honey, Emma; Leekam, Sue; Turner, Michelle; McConachie, Helen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
The view of a triad of impairments [(Wing and Gould (1979). "Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 9," 11-30] in which impaired imagination is linked with repetitive behaviour is widely accepted. However this categorisation differs from the international classification systems, which link imagination to communication impairments rather…
Descriptors: Play, Imagination, Classification, Autism