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Quantifying Social Skill Deficits and Strengths Profiles in Autistic Youth
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Gates, Jacquelyn A.; Gerber, Alan H.; Miller, Caroline E.; Lerner, Matthew D. – Child Development, 2023
While social difficulties in autism are well-established, questions remain regarding whether these represent challenges in "acquiring" or "performing" such skills, reduced social strengths, or a unique distribution across these domains (i.e., social profile). This study empirically derived social profiles of 211 autistic and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Skill Development
Examining the Factor Structure and Discriminative Utility of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire--Revised in Infant Siblings of Autistic Children
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Sung, Sooyeon; Fenoglio, Angela; Wolff, Jason J.; Schultz, Robert T.; Botteron, Kelly N.; Dager, Stephen R.; Estes, Annette M.; Hazlett, Heather C.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Piven, Joseph; Elison, Jed T. – Child Development, 2022
Using the Infant Behavior Questionnaire--Revised in a longitudinal sample of infant siblings of autistic children (HR; n = 427, 171 female, 83.4% White) and a comparison group of low-risk controls (LR, n = 200, 86 female, 81.5% White), collected between 2007 and 2017, this study identified an invariant factor structure of temperament traits across…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Infants, Behavior, Siblings
Influence of a Short-Term Attention Intervention on the Attentional Skills of Toddlers with Suspected or Confirmed Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Lori-Ann R. Sacrey; Lonnie Zwaigenbaum; Isabel M. Smith; Jessica A. Brian; Sam Wass; Emily J. H. Jones; Mark H. Johnson – Child Development, 2025
Examination of the effectiveness of an attention intervention using a randomized controlled trial for toddlers with suspected or confirmed autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Data was collected from Alberta, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, Canada between February 2018 and February 2020 (halted due to COVID-19 pandemic). Participants were 35 toddlers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Attention, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Face Perception and Social Cognitive Development in Early Autism: A Prospective Longitudinal Study from 3 Months to 7 Years of Age
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Xiaomei Zhou; Hasan Siddiqui; M. D. Rutherford – Child Development, 2025
Autism spectrum condition (ASC) is characterized by atypical attention to eyes and faces, but the onset and impact of these atypicalities remain unclear. This prospective longitudinal study examined face perception in infants who develop ASC (N = 22, female = 5, 100% White) compared with typically developing infants (N = 131, female = 65, 55.6%…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Nonverbal Communication, Social Cognition, Adjustment (to Environment)
Autistic Traits and Self-Conscious Emotions in Early Childhood
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van Trigt, Shanna; Colonnesi, Cristina; Brummelman, Eddie; Jorgensen, Terrence D.; Nikolic, Milica – Child Development, 2023
Self-conscious emotions arise from evaluating the self through the eyes of others. Given that children with autistic traits may experience difficulties with understanding others' minds, they might show less attuned self-conscious emotions. Two-to-five-year-old children's (N = 98, M[subscript age] = 48.54 months, 50% girls, 92% White)…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Self Concept, Psychological Patterns
Association of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Perinatal Maternal Depression with Early Childhood Behavioral Problems: An Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Study
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Shuffrey, Lauren C.; Morales, Santiago; Jacobson, Melanie H.; Bosquet Enlow, Michelle; Ghassabian, Akhgar; Margolis, Amy E.; Lucchini, Maristella; Carroll, Kecia N.; Crum, Rosa M.; Dabelea, Dana; Deutsch, Arielle; Fifer, William P.; Goldson, Brandon; Hockett, Christine W.; Mason, W. Alex; Jacobson, Lisette T.; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Pini, Nicolò; Rayport, Yael; Sania, Ayesha; Trasande, Leonardo; Wright, Rosalind J.; Lee, Seonjoo; Monk, Catherine – Child Development, 2023
This study examined the association of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), prenatal, and postnatal maternal depressive symptoms with externalizing, internalizing, and autism spectrum problems on the Preschool Child Behavior Checklist in 2379 children aged 4.12 ± 0.60 (48% female; 47% White, 32% Black, 15% Mixed Race, 4% Asian, <2% American…
Descriptors: Young Children, Pregnancy, Diabetes, Mothers