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Australian Practitioners' Beliefs, Confidence, and Training Needs for Delivering Behaviour Support to Children and Young People in Out‐of‐Home Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) frequently present with complex behavioural needs. In New South Wales (NSW), behaviour support plans (BSPs) are mandated when restrictive practices, including psychotropic medication, are used. Little research has examined whether the statutory workforce is adequately prepared to meet behaviour support ...
Manisha Abayakoon Stanborough, Kelly‐Ann Allen, Emily Berger, Mikaela Stanborough, Erin Leif   +4 more
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A scoping review of deictic gesture use in toddlers with or at-risk for autism spectrum disorder

Autism and Developmental Language Impairments, 2018
Background and aims Young children use deictic gestures, such as pointing, to indicate referents in their immediate environment. Early deictic gesture use is important in facilitating the development of language.
Stacy S Manwaring, Ashley L Stevens, Alfred Mowdood, Mellanye Lackey   +3 more
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Beyond Behaviour: Exploring How Positive Behaviour Support Might Work for Autistic Children Within Australia's NDIS

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) endorsed‐behavioural intervention framework. Understanding how and why PBS is effective is critical, given the increasing number of autistic children accessing the NDIS.
Cameron Stott, Abi Thirumanickam, Brent Hayward, Lucy Farrar, Stacie Attrill   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autism Spectrum Disorder What Every Parent Needs to Know

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- From the Editors -- Contents -- Please Note -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. What Is Autism Spectrum Disorder? -- Chapter 2. What Causes Autism Spectrum Disorder? -- Chapter 3.
Rosenblatt, MD, FAAP, Alan I., Carbone, MD, FAAP, Paul S., Pediatrics, American Academy of.   +2 more
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Neurotransmitter‐Defined Degeneration Patterns in Sporadic and C9orf72‐Associated Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Predilection to GABAergic, Serotonergic, Opioid, Glutamatergic, Endocannabinoid, and Microglial Systems—Implications for Therapy Development

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has a markedly distinctive clinical and neuroradiological signature, with the preferential involvement of specific brain networks and the apparent sparing of others. The molecular underpinnings of the strikingly selective anatomical vulnerability have not been fully elucidated to date despite the potential ...
Marlene Tahedl, We Fong Siah, Jasmin Lope, Jennifer C. Hengeveld, Mark A. Doherty, Russell L. McLaughlin, Orla Hardiman, Ee Ling Tan, Alison Toomey, Jana Kleinerova, Peter Bede   +10 more
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A Comparison of Autistic Like Traits in the Relatives of Patients with Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder

Iranian Journal of Psychiatry, 2018
Objective: This study aimed to identify autistic like traits in relatives of patients with schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder. Method: causal-comparative research design was utilized.
Zeynab Khanjani, Shahin Azmoodeh, Majid Mahmoudaliloo, Gholamreza Noorazar   +3 more
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Association between parental psychiatric disorders and risk of offspring autism spectrum disorder: a Swedish and Finnish population-based cohort studyResearch in context

The Lancet Regional Health. Europe
Summary: Background: Roughly more than one in six adults worldwide suffer from psychiatric conditions. Sporadic studies have associated parental psychiatric disorders with autism spectrum disorder in offspring.
Weiyao Yin, Anna Pulakka, Abraham Reichenberg, Alexander Kolevzon, Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Kari Risnes, Marius Lahti-Pulkkinen, Martina Persson, Michael E. Silverman, Ulrika Åden, Eero Kajantie, Sven Sandin   +11 more
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Gender diversity and autism spectrum disorder in child and youth population

European Psychiatry
Introduction Interest in the co-occurrence of gender dysphoria and autism spectrum disorder has gained prominence in recent years. Gender dysphoria refers to the distress experienced when there is an incongruence between gender identity and sex assigned
P. R. Rodríguez, M. M. Grimal, E. E. M. Castellano, F. A. R. Batista, N. M. Pérez   +4 more
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Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Among Youth With Autism and ADHD: A Population‐Based Study From Sweden

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Youth with autism spectrum disorder or attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may face barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. Yet, data on preventive SRH service use remain limited, especially digital care. This population‐based registry study investigated whether patterns of SRH service use differed by digital ...
Lovisa Hellsten, Jessica Rast, Anna Nielsen, Anna Mia Ekström, Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson, Kyriaki Kosidou, Viktor H. Ahlqvist   +6 more
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Developing a short form of the Psychoeducational Profile-Third Edition for children with autism spectrum disorder

, 2017
The Psychoeducational Profile-Third Edition (PEP-3), a standardized and norm-referenced scale, is designed to assess the development of communication and motor skills and the presence of maladaptive behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorder ...
Lee, Chia-Yi;Su, Chia-Ting;Chiang, Fu-Mei;Chen, Yu-Lan;Hsieh, Ching-Lin;Fu, Chung-Pei, ���I��;�²M��   +1 more
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