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Yu-Hsin Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Developmental disorders impose significant public health and economic burdens on society. These conditions present substantial social, communication, and behavioral challenges throughout an individual's lifetime. It is well known that early diagnosis is crucial for enabling timely and effective interventions, which improve long-term outcomes for…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Clinical Diagnosis, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Children
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Cheryl Klaiman; Stormi White; Shana Richardson; Emma McQueen; Hasse Walum; Christa Aoki; Christopher Smith; Mendy Minjarez; Raphael Bernier; Ernest Pedapati; Somer Bishop; Whitney Ence; Allison Wainer; Jennifer Moriuchi; Sew-Wah Tay; Yiming Deng; Warren Jones; Scott Gillespie; Ami Klin – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Differential diagnosis of young children with suspected autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is challenging, and clinician uncertainty about a child's diagnosis may contribute to misdiagnosis and subsequent delays in access to early treatment. The current study was designed to replicate and expand a recent report in this Journal (McDonnell et al. in…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Young Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Accuracy
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Bonnie Keilty; Melissa A. Jackson; JaneDiane Smith – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2025
Part C early intervention (EI) starts no earlier than birth, even with a prenatal diagnosis resulting in automatic eligibility. Despite other early U.S. home visiting programs beginning prenatally and the increasing likelihood of uncovering certain diagnoses prenatally, pregnant families cannot access EI. This study sought to understand families'…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Down Syndrome, Family Attitudes, Pregnancy
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Paulina Buffle; Cristina Armijos; Alfredo Naranjo; Edouard Gentaz – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Identification procedures for autism spectrum disorders in paediatric settings include screening and routine clinical surveillance. Screening tools are perceived as challenging, and a preference for direct observation has been reported in Ecuadorian paediatric settings. Augmentative observational procedures could prompt the application of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disability Identification, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Pediatrics
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Yibin Zhang; Brian MacWhinney; Jing Zhou – SAGE Open, 2024
For proper assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of language disorders in Mandarin children, it is important to have measures that closely track the course of normal development. The current study uses a large collection of spontaneous conversational language samples to track the developmental course of five language measures: mean length of…
Descriptors: Norm Referenced Tests, Mandarin Chinese, Syntax, Clinical Diagnosis
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Ling Li Leng; Yue Wen Zhu; Lin Gang Zhou – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The timing of autism spectrum disorder detection in research and clinical practice is characterised by substantial heterogeneity ranging from infancy to school age. In this study, we examined the age of diagnosis and its associated individual and socio-familial factors in Chinese children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. A sample of 1235…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Foreign Countries, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification
Suzy Lea Juarez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the last 5 years, teachers have had challenging experiences while educating young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as the number of children diagnosed with the disorder has sharply increased. This transcendental phenomenological study of teachers' interactions with students with ASD during social activities answers the following…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes, Young Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Jacob I. Feldman; Varsha Garla; Kacie Dunham; Jennifer E. Markfeld; Sarah M. Bowman; Alexandra J. Golden; Claire Daly; Sophia Kaiser; Nisha Mailapur; Sweeya Raj; Pooja Santapuram; Evan Suzman; Ashley E. Augustine; Aine Muhumuza; Carissa J. Cascio; Kathryn L. Williams; Anne V. Kirby; Bahar Keceli-Kaysili; Tiffany G. Woynaroski – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Early differences in sensory responsiveness may contribute to difficulties with communication among autistic children; however, this theory has not been longitudinally assessed in infants at increased familial versus general population-level likelihood for autism (Sibs-autism vs. Sibs-NA) using a comprehensive battery of sensory responsiveness and…
Descriptors: Infants, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Sensory Experience, Siblings
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Muna Abd El-Raziq; Natalia Meir; Elinor Saiegh-Haddad – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
Background and aims: Although autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has not traditionally been associated with morphosyntactic impairments, some children with ASD manifest significant difficulties in this domain. Sentence Repetition (SRep) tasks are highly reliable tools for detecting morphosyntactic impairment in different languages and across various…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Arabic, Native Language