Defining quality in applied behavior analytic support service is an evolving priority. As organizations begin creating professional and organizational standards, it is important that these metrics enc...

Background Neurodevelopmental conditions often emerge early in life and have substantial genetic influences. There are significant genetic correlations between neurodevelopmental conditions, such as...

Purpose Research in autism has historically focused on childhood, leaving cognitive aging in autistic adults poorly understood. This study investigated whether cognitive aging in autism follows simila...

Almost since the term “empathy” was coined, there has been scholarly disagreement about its meaning. Today it can best be viewed as an umbrella term encompassin...

Purpose Autism is associated with social interaction and communication difficulties. The theory of the double empathy problem challenges the idea that these difficulties are inherent to autism, arguin...

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is prevalent among autistic adolescents and adults, yet research on its clinical characteristics, functions, and association with suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs....

To improve access to early interventions for infants and toddlers with a neurodevelopmental vulnerability, the BEAR (Blended E-health for children at eArly Risk) intervention was developed. BEAR is a ...

Our findings show that ‘Rett-like’ generally describes females with developmental disability, typically with no period of regression. We establish that there is a broad genetic landscape encompassing....

Background Hand-leading (HL) gestures used to obtain assistance or direct another person's actions are often reported at elevated rates in autistic childre...

Peer interactions take on increasing importance for youth in middle childhood and adolescence. Autistic youth face particular challenges interacting with non-autistic peers; thus, it is critical to u...

During EEG recording, autistic and non-autistic adults were presented with auditory sequences where tones cued the probability of a subsequent imperative target. The autistic group showed less effect...

Extinction may be difficult to implement when targeting automatically maintained behavior because the putative maintaining reinforcer cannot be directly observed. The exact behavioral mechanism of pro...

Community engagement is increasingly promoted as a good practice in autism research, yet little is known about how Community Advisory Boards are used. This scoping review mapped the extent and nature ...

Abstract Diffusion decision models (DDMs) offer the potential to go beyond standard accuracy and response-time indices to better understand perceptual decision-making in autism. One unanswered questio...

Catatonia occurs disproportionately in autistic individuals and may respond to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), yet prior reports suggest greater treatment burden in this population. We compared long...

The current study taught six autistic children to actively and passively cooperate during routine physical examinations. A nonconcurrent multiple-baseline design across participants was used to evalua...

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Purpose Public health surveillance of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) relies on identifying the condition in educational and/or clinical contexts. However, the criteria used to operationalize ASD for s...

Antidepressant prescribing and autism diagnoses have increased in recent years. We aimed to describe and compare trends in antidepressant prescribing, indications, doses and durations in autistic and...

Autism screening aids in early detection and diagnosis. Several screeners are available for toddlers 16 months and older, but there is little data on the accuracy of screening measures used in the fi...

Self-injurious behaviors (SIBs) affect up to 50% of autistic individuals and significantly impact quality of life and everyday functioning. Cross-sectional studies link the presence of SIB to lower I....

Behavioral momentum theory (BMT) posits that particular independent variables may be adjusted during routine differential-reinforcement treatments (e.g., functional communication training) to reduce ...

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The DSM-5/DSM-5-TR includes clinician-reported severity levels to help individualize autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses. Severity levels for the two core autism domains of social communication ...

Diagnoses play vital roles in child and adolescent mental health services and research. They facilitate accurate communication, selection of appropriate interventions and estimation of prognosis. Rec...

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Autism presents significant challenges for clinical research and biomarker development due to behavioral heterogeneity and reliance on clinician- and …

Functional communication training (FCT) is a form of differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) commonly paired with extinction to treat challenging behavior. However, extinction proced...

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects social interaction, communication and behavioural flexibility. Recent theories grounded in the Bayesian Brain Framework propose that autistic individu...

The increase in intervention diversity to improve core difficulties in autism has resulted in the development and proliferation of a variety of measures to asse...

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Developmental regression during childhood is inconsistently defined and measured, resulting in delayed diagnostic discovery and intervention. This study aimed to examine published definitions and mea....

Language trajectories in autism are highly heterogeneous and cannot be captured by unidimensional classifications. Research and clinical practice often rely on verbal/non-verbal or speaking/non-speak...

Background Autism early intervention meta-analyses have yielded important insights into questions such as ‘what works’ and ‘for what’ outcomes. However, because these studies primarily rely on study-l...

The ability to detect recurring temporal co-occurrence, or temporal correlation, of sensory events is fundamental for organizing perceptual input into coherent representations. Although past work has...

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Purpose Hospital Emergency Departments are increasingly playing a role in the care of young people experiencing suicidal crisis. Autistic young people, who already experience elevated rates of suicida...

Competing stimulus assessments (CSAs) are designed to identify stimuli that reduce challenging behavior through reinforcer competition or substitution. Haddock and Hagopian (2020) found that CSAs dem...

Although bilingualism is now recognized as having no adverse effects on language outcomes in autistic children, little is known about how it manifests in early development, particularly in minimally ....

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Our understanding of psychological experiences of anxiety in autism could be improved if it were shaped by autistic individuals. However, anxiety research in au...

Purpose Empathy and systemising are traits that show on-average differences between autistic and non-autistic groups and have informed major theoretical frameworks of autism. While these constructs ha...

Purpose Whether autism is increasing is a subject of growing interest to researchers, health and social care professionals, policymakers, and the general public. We examined trends over time in the pr...