High Functioning
The experiences and needs of female adults with high functioning autism spectrum disorder
... with high functioning ASD that their support needs tend to be overlooked or disregarded because they do not fit into conventional social constructions of ‘disability’, and are belied by a normal or ...
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Crowding and visual search in high functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder
... used high function- ing adults with ages ranging from 20–62 years to see if the higher discrimination ability was related to an inability to perceive differences between similar objects based upon a prototype of ...
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Reputation Management and the ‘Observer Effect’ in Persons with High Functioning Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome
... Neither of the first two editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) included autism as a distinct diagnostic category and to quote Kanner (1971, p. 141), “children so afflicted are ...
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Employment activities and experiences of adults with high functioning autism and Asperger's Disorder
... There is limited large-scale empirical research into the working lives of adults who have an autism spectrum disorder with no co-occurring intellectual disability. Drawing on data from a national survey, this report ...
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Dissociation in performance of children with ADHD and high functioning autism on a task of sustained attention
... Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism are two neurodevelopmental disorders associated with prominent executive dysfunc- tion, which may be underpinned by disruption within fronto-striatal and ...
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Reading between the lines : an intervention concerning reading comprehension, students with high functioning autism spectrum disorder, and the design of educational software for mobile technologies
... The participants with HFASD performed similarly to controls on tests of semantic and fluency, however, the most significant differences between the children with HFASD and the children without HFASD was on a subtest for ...
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Insomnia in school age children with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism
... daytime functioning of the ...displayed high levels of psychiatric symptoms, particularly anxiety and ...a high rate of insomnia might be expected among these ...
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Visual Behavior and Preference Decision Making in Response to Faces in High Functioning Autism
... At the individual level, the gaze cascade effect was observed for each of the amygdala subjects in all four conditions, indicating that the feedback loop between preference and foveation is normal and intact in the ...
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Substance use disorder in high functioning autism: clinical and neurocognitive insights from two case reports
... with High-Functioning Autism (HFA), but a surprisingly low prevalence of substance-use disorders (SUDs) has been reported in this population [1] (results of a study involving 122 ...
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Enhancing Metaphor and Metonymy Comprehension in Children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder
... In this article, we outlined some intervention activities that addressed specific difficulties in understanding me- taphorical and metonymical usages in children with high-functioning ASD. We presented the ...
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The Assessment Screening of Trauma Reactions, Psychopathology and Psychosocial Function in a High Risk Sample of 4 8 Year Old Children—A Pilot Study
... showed high ratings of peer problems and all 16 children had subscale scores within the bor- derline or clinical range in two or more ...relatively high in this sample when compared with a Danish norm ...
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'What's the point?' An investigation into the experiences of staff working with adults with autism spectrum disorders
... working in adult mental health services often feel unskilled in working with this population (White, 2012), learning disability services, who would traditionally have this multidisciplinary skill set are unlikely to get ...
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The use of Internet-based communication by people with autism
... “high- functioning” individuals of normal or superior intelligence, often described as having Asperger ...the high- functioning end of the autistic spectrum are often disadvantaged in terms of ...
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Building Positive Future Orientations: The Role of Natural Mentors in the Lives of African American Girls
... cognitive functioning in their study represent practice ...cognitive functioning and that those children undergoing surgical intervention are likely at the greatest risk for cognitive decline without ...
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Group Therapy for Japanese University Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
... with high-functioning ASD in terms of ...in high-functioning ASD, interferes with es- tablishment of relationships, occupational functioning, and community partici- pation and ...
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Bilingual bonds: acculturation, attachment, and being yourself in a new language
... to high acculturation levels, functioning in majority L2-speaking social networks, L2-oriented language dominance, using the L2 to mediate attachment, and permanent domicile in the host ...
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EU Development Cooperation after Lisbon: The Role of the European External Action Service. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Papers 10/2010
... and functioning of the European External Action Service was finally adopted, a full-fledged battle took place over the control of the multi-billion EU development ...and functioning of the EEAS granted the ...
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Examining the association between social cognition and functioning in individuals at ultra high risk for psychosis
... in functioning (or chronic low functioning for the past year) and 4) meet UHR criteria for either attenuated psychotic symptoms, brief limited intermittent psychotic symptoms (BLIPS) and/or trait ...
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Motion and pattern cortical potentials in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder
... and high spatial frequencies, in contrast to typically developing subjects, and suggested this contributes to altered visual perception ...at high (90%) and low (10%) spatial contrasts there were no group ...
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Judgment of Learning Accuracy in High-functioning Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
... showed high JOL accu- racy by employing atypical ‘‘non-metacognitive’’ ...show high accuracy on cue-alone JOL tasks by using atypical, non-metacognitive strategies, which should not be possible on ...
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