High-functioning
Crowding and visual search in high functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder
... With relation to models of visual processing in ASD, the data here provide evidence for normal psychophysical responses with relation to critical spacing and discrimina- tion thresholds. This would suggest that the ...
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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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Dohsa Training and Theory of Mind in High Functioning Autistic Children
... The goals of this research were: examine the effectiveness of Dohsa-hou on theory of mind in high-functioning autistic children. As data showed, Dohsa-hou was effective treatment for autistic children . Now ...
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Social attention and empathy in high functioning women with autism spectrum disorders
... Information of the participants of the ASD group and control group is included in Table 1. Mean age did not differ significantly between groups (t(58) = .32, p = .750), neither did the mean number of children (t(58) = ...
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Psychiatric comorbidities in asperger syndrome and high functioning autism: diagnostic challenges
... higher- functioning) depression, and not schizophrenia, was the likely diagnosis ...with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome have characteristics that could lead to a mistaken diagnosis of ...
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Abnormal wiring of the connectome in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder
... A limitation of this study concerns the lack of Autism Diagnostic Interview—Revised and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, which are standard instruments in the diagnostics of ASD in many countries. In Finland, they ...
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The experience of isolation and loneliness in young adults with high-functioning autism.
... loneliness, those could not be detected with the sample used in this study. Second, it was not possible to control for potential effects of age and cognitive ability, given that differences in these characteristics ...
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Cognitive profiles of adults with high functioning autism (HFA) and Asperger syndrome
... Executive functioning covers a wide range of skills that are involved in dealing with novel ...executive functioning hypothesis offers possible explanations for the various impairments often associated with ...
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Academic Achievement of Children and Adolescents with High- Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder with In-Depth Focus on Written Expression
... Academic Achievement of Children and Adolescents with High- Academic Achievement of Children and Adolescents with High- Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder with In-Depth Focus on Funct[r] ...
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Neurocognition, social cognition, and functional outcome in schizophrenia and high-functioning autism
... relationships between social cognition and neurocognition are significant in a schizophrenia sample, but not in a non-clinical (Addington & Addington, 1998; Corrigan & Toomey, 1995; Kohler et al., 2000; Penn, van ...
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The experiences and needs of female adults with high functioning autism spectrum disorder
... The present analysis is based on the female subset of participants within a larger study conducted by the authors [citation removed for blinding purposes]. This original study, entitled We Belong, employed a ...
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Self-Reported and Parent-Reported School Bullying in Adolescents with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Roles of Autistic Social Impairment, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity and Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms
... Adolescents with high-functioning ASD and their parents were invited to complete the research questionnaires. Research assistants conducted the interview to collect adolescents’ self-reported school ...
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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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Possible evidence for a fall in the prevalence of high-functioning pervasive developmental disorder with age?
... of high-functioning pervasive developmental disorder (HFPDD) in a community sample of teenagers and adults aged 13 and above in the city of Sheffield, ...of high-functioning pervasive ...
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Dissociation in performance of children with ADHD and high functioning autism on a task of sustained attention
... Fig. 2. Grand average of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) of the mean response time (RT) data on the Fixed and Random versions of the Sustained Atten- tion to Response Task (SART) for the attention deficit hyperactivity ...
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Atypical emotional anticipation in high-functioning autism
... with high-functioning autism (HFA) may process these cues differently from individuals with typical development (TD) and purportedly use a ‘ mechanistic ’ rather than a ‘ mentalistic ’ approach, involving ...
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Effectiveness of Audiovisual Stimulation on Executive Function in Children with High-functioning Autism
... 41 high-functioning autism spectrum disorders in children 5 to 8 years old who were referred to Tehran's Autism ...as high- functioning autism by a verified child ...
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Intelligence profiles of Chinese school-aged boys with high-functioning ASD and ADHD
... with high-functioning ASD (HFASD) would mainly be characterized with impair- ment in Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI), while boys with ADHD would display more impairment in ...with ...
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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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A pilot study of social cognition training for adults with high-functioning autism
... for High Functioning Autism (SCIT-A) is based on the original SCIT protocol developed by Roberts, Penn and Combs (2004) with the population specific modifications described ...social functioning and ...
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