Using self-report to identify the broad phenotype in parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders: A study using the autism-spectrum quotient
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The concept of the broad phenotype of autism refers to the finding that relatives of people with autism often have mild forms of autistic-like characteristics, such as social and communicative difficulties. The study used the Autism Spectrum Quotient, a questionnaire devised to assess features of the broad phenotype in adults, with parents of people with autism, to see whether they would be more likely to obtain extreme scores than a control group.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 2004
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Attention orienting by another's gaze direction in children with autism
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The observation of autistic children as well as normally developing children helped to study the attention orienting triggered by anotherEs gaze direction in autism. It was found that another person's static gaze direction automatically led to shift of visual attention in both groups of children who were also able to overtly discriminate the direction of the gaze.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 2004
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Reflexive orienting in response to eye gaze and an arrow in children with and without autism
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An experiment to study whether gaze direction and an arrow triggered reflexive orienting in autistic and normally developing children was conducted. It was found that children with autism were slow to respond to gaze direction suggesting a difference in the general cognitive ability whereas in normally developing children the orientation was faster.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 2004
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