Why ASD Children Struggle with Friendships | Challenges My Elementary School-Aged Second Son Faced in 'Interacting with Friends'

I want you to get along with your friends.”As a parent, you naturally wish for that for your child, don't you?While raising ...
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Study provides insights into how social touch affects people with ASD

People with strong signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show neural signs of anxiety when they see social touch and report unpleasant feelings about social touch by comparison to people with weak ...
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Speech emerges in children on the autism spectrum with severe language delay at greater rate than previously thought

Study could reveals key predictors of speech gains. New findings reveal that 70 percent of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who have a history of severe language delay, achieved phrase or ...
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New assessment tools capture implicit signs of word knowledge in individuals with Level 3 ASD

Tests that assess vocabulary among individuals with the severest forms of autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, are notoriously inaccurate. Conventional language assessments, which commonly ask them to ...