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Xiaomei Zhou; Hasan Siddiqui; M. D. Rutherford – Child Development, 2025
Autism spectrum condition (ASC) is characterized by atypical attention to eyes and faces, but the onset and impact of these atypicalities remain unclear. This prospective longitudinal study examined face perception in infants who develop ASC (N = 22, female = 5, 100% White) compared with typically developing infants (N = 131, female = 65, 55.6%…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Nonverbal Communication, Social Cognition, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Georgianna Moraitopoulou; Hannah Pickard; Emily Simonoff; Andrew Pickles; Rachael Bedford; Virginia Carter Leno – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The alexithymia hypothesis posits that specific aspects of the autistic socio-cognitive profile, namely emotion recognition difficulties, can be explained by the increased prevalence of alexithymia in autistic populations. However, this hypothesis has largely been tested in adults. We tested whether co-occurring alexithymia could account for…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Candida C. Peterson; Virginia Slaughter – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2025
Moral reasoning and theory of mind (ToM) are two distinct but related aspects of social cognition. While past research has clearly documented serious delays in ToM development for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) both cross-sectionally (e.g. Happe, 1995) and longitudinally (Peterson & Wellman, 2020) much less is known about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Elementary School Students, Special Needs Students