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Avoiding Ableist Language: Suggestions for Autism Researchers

Autism in Adulthood, 2020
In this commentary, we describe how language used to communicate about autism within much of autism research can reflect and perpetuate ableist ideologies (i.e., beliefs and practices that discriminate against people with disabilities), whether or not ...
K. Bottema‐Beutel, Steven K. Kapp, J. Lester, N. Sasson, Brittany N. Hand   +4 more
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A comparative study of autistic and non-autistic women’s experience of motherhood

Molecular Autism, 2020
Background Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental difference and disability, yet there is limited research examining parenting in autistic mothers. Objective To explore autistic mothers’ experience of the perinatal period and parenthood.
A. L. Pohl, S. K. Crockford, M. Blakemore, C. Allison, S. Baron-Cohen   +4 more
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Evidence against the “normalization” prediction of the early brain overgrowth hypothesis of autism

Molecular Autism, 2020
Background The frequently cited Early Overgrowth Hypothesis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) postulates that there is overgrowth of the brain in the first 2 years of life, which is followed by a period of arrested growth leading to normalized brain ...
Lisa D. Yankowitz, John D. Herrington, Benjamin E. Yerys, Joseph A. Pereira, Juhi Pandey, Robert T. Schultz   +5 more
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Is anyone looking at me? Direct gaze detection in children with and without autism [PDF]

, 2008
Atypical processing of eye contact is one of the significant characteristics of individuals with autism, but the mechanism underlying atypical direct gaze processing is still unclear. This study used a visual search paradigm to examine whether the facial
Ashwin, Atsushi Senju, Baranek, Baron-Cohen, Chun, Clifford, Conty, Csibra, Dalton, Gale, Gale, Grice, Happé, Happé, Hiroo Osanai, Hobson, Hood, Jenkins, Johnson, Joseph, Kleinke, Klin, Kylliäinen, Kylliäinen, Lahaie, Langton, Langton, Lopez, Maestro, Martin, Martin, Martin, Mason, Miller, Miller, Mottron, Neumann, Nichols, Osterling, Osterling, O’Riordan, O’Riordan, O’Riordan, Pelphrey, Perrett, Perrett, Plaisted, Ratcliff, Raven, Robson, Robson, Rouse, Sasson, Schultz, Senju, Senju, Senju, Senju, Senju, Seyama, Smith, Speer, Spezio, Sugishita, Teunisse, Toshikazu Hasegawa, Treisman, Valentine, van der Geest, von Grünau, Vuilleumier, Werner, Wolfe, Wollaston, Yin, Yoshikuni Tojo, Yukiko Kikuchi   +76 more
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Brief report : the level and nature of autistic intelligence revisited [PDF]

, 2008
Owing to higher performance on the Raven’s Progressive Matrices (RPM) than on the Wechsler Intelligence Scales (WIS), it has recently been argued that intelligence is underestimated in autism.
Bölte, Sven, Dziobek, Isabel, Poustka, Fritz   +2 more
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Autism and the U.K. secondary school experience [PDF]

, 2014
This research investigated the self-reported mainstream school experiences of those diagnosed on the autistic spectrum compared with the typically developing school population.
Audit Commission, Boutot E. A., Costley D., Gayle V. Dillon, George C. L., Greene J., Jean D. M. Underwood, Jones G., Kline P., Lauren J. Freemantle, Miles M. B., Norton A., Pianta R. C., Vygotsky L. S., Warnock M.   +14 more
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Visual Autism

Children, 2023
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and restricted, repetitive behaviors. It affects approximately 2.2% of children. Both genetic and environmental risk factors have been identified for ASD. Visual comorbidities are relatively common among children with ASD.
Margaret Reynolds, Susan M. Culican
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The Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange: Towards Large-Scale Evaluation of the Intrinsic Brain Architecture in Autism

Molecular Psychiatry, 2013
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) represent a formidable challenge for psychiatry and neuroscience because of their high prevalence, lifelong nature, complexity and substantial heterogeneity.
A. di Martino, Chao-Gan Yan, Qingyang Li, Erin Denio, F. Xavier Castellanos, K. Alaerts, Jeffrey S. Anderson, Michal Assaf, S. Bookheimer, M. Dapretto, Ben Deen, Sonja Delmonte, Ilan Dinstein, Birgit Ertl-Wagner, Damien A. Fair, Louise Gallagher, Daniel P. Kennedy, C. Keown, C. Keysers, J. Lainhart, Catherine Lord, Beatriz Luna, Vinod Menon, Nancy Minshew, Christopher S. Monk, Sophia Mueller, Ralph-Axel Müller, M. B. Nebel, J. Nigg, K. O'Hearn, Kevin A. Pelphrey, S. J. Peltier, Jeff D. Rudie, S. Sunaert, M. Thioux, J. M. Tyszka, L. Uddin, J. Verhoeven, N. Wenderoth, Jillian L. Wiggins, Stewart H. Mostofsky, M. Milham   +41 more
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The Female Autism Phenotype and Camouflaging: a Narrative Review

Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Autism is more commonly diagnosed in males than females. One explanation is the ‘female protective effect’: there is something inherent in being female which reduces the likelihood of developing autism.
Laura Hull, K. Petrides, W. Mandy
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Conditional Pten knockout in parvalbumin- or somatostatin-positive neurons sufficiently leads to autism-related behavioral phenotypes

Molecular Brain, 2021
Disrupted GABAergic neurons have been extensively described in brain tissues from individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and animal models for ASD.
Sangyep Shin, Andrea Santi, Shiyong Huang   +2 more
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