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The Autistic Experience of Homelessness: Implications from a Narrative Enquiry
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Stone, Beth; Cameron, Ailsa; Dowling, Sandra – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Emerging research suggests autistic people are disproportionately represented in homeless populations. Less is known about how autistic people experience homelessness and what prevents them from exiting homelessness. This article presents findings from a narrative enquiry investigating the link between autism and homelessness. Ten autistic adults…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Homeless People, Experience, Biographies
Understanding Repetitive Behaviours: A Clinical and Cost-Effectiveness, Multi-Site Randomised Controlled Trial of a Group for Parents and Carers of Young Autistic Children
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Victoria Grahame; Ashleigh Kernohan; Ehsan Kharati; Ayesha Mathias; Chrissie Butcher; Linda Dixon; Sue Fletcher-Watson; Deborah Garland; Magdalena Glod; Jane Goodwin; Saoirse Heron; Emma Honey; Ann Le Couteur; Leila Mackie; Jessica Maxwell; Lewis Montgomery; Emmanuel Ogundimu; Helen Probert; Deborah Riby; Priyanka Rob; Leanne Rogan; Laura Tavernor; Luke Vale; Elspeth Imogen Webb; Christopher Weetman; Jacqui Rodgers – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Restricted and repetitive behaviours vary greatly between autistic people. Some are a source of pleasure or create opportunities for learning; others may be detrimental in day-to-day life or cause harm. We have developed, in close collaboration with parents/carers, the Understanding Repetitive Behaviours programme, designed for families of young…
Descriptors: Repetition, Behavior Patterns, Cost Effectiveness, Randomized Controlled Trials
Comparing Sleep Patterns between Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Children with Typical Development: A Matched Case-Control Study
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Tse, Andy C. Y.; Yu, C. C. W.; Lee, Paul H. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Children with autism spectrum disorder are often reported to have more sleep deficits and poorer sleep quality compared with children with typical development. However, most previous studies have serious methodological limitations, such as varying sample sizes in the comparison groups, wide age range of participants, and body mass index not…
Descriptors: Sleep, Behavior Patterns, Children, Child Development
Neural Self-Representation in Autistic Women and Association with 'Compensatory Camouflaging'
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Lai, Meng-Chuan; Lombardo, Michael V.; Chakrabarti, Bhismadev; Ruigrok, Amber NV; Bullmore, Edward T.; Suckling, John; Auyeung, Bonnie; Happé, Francesca; Szatmari, Peter; Baron-Cohen, Simon – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Prior work has revealed sex/gender-dependent autistic characteristics across behavioural and neural/biological domains. It remains unclear whether and how neural sex/gender differences are related to behavioural sex/gender differences in autism. Here, we examined whether atypical neural responses during mentalizing and self-representation are…
Descriptors: Females, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adults
Oculomotor Behavior in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Caldani, Simona; Steg, Sarah; Lefebvre, Aline; Atzori, Paola; Peyre, Hugo; Delorme, Richard; Bucci, Maria Pia – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
To identify quantitative indicators of social communication dysfunctions, we explored the oculomotor performances in subjects with autism spectrum disorders. Discordant findings in the literature have been reported for oculomotor behavior in subjects with autism spectrum disorders. This study aimed to explore reflexive and voluntary saccadic…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Eye Movements, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Joint Attention, Language, Social Relating, and Stereotypical Behaviours in Children with Autistic Disorder
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Delinicolas, Erin K.; Young, Robyn L. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
This study aimed to investigate the relationships between abilities to initiate and respond to joint attention and symptoms of autism that have, and have not, been theoretically linked to joint attention. Participants were 51 boys and five girls with autistic disorder, aged between 2 years and 6 years 5 months. Measures of joint attention…
Descriptors: Autism, Attention, Young Children, Social Behavior