Children with autism and their parents face daily challenges that may be stressful for both. However, little is known about biological stress (hair cortisol concentrations [HCC]) in these families and its connection to children’s health outcomes.

Infants at elevated likelihood for or later diagnosed with autism typically have smaller vocabularies than their peers, as shown by the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) and the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory (CDI).

It is well established that information relating to oneself tends to be encoded, processed, and recalled more easily and accurately than equivalent information about others (Cunningham & Turk, 2017 ). This “self-bias” is apparent across a variety …

Many children with ASD exhibit difficulties with emotion regulation that greatly impair functioning. Certain intrinsic correlates of dysregulation have been identified in this population, but the search for potential environmental influences has …

The current study examined the associations between internalizing symptoms, social motivation, and gender among autistic and non-autistic youth. Caregivers of 386 participants age 6 to 14 years completed measures of their child’s internalizing …

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a condition characterized by restrictive and repetitive behaviors, difficulties in social interaction, communication challenges, and other features that can interfere with various aspects of life, including eating …

The use of literal prompts (LPs) and inferential prompts (IPs) in shared book reading (SBR) facilitates children’s use of language and promotes their thinking and understanding about the stories discussed and beyond. Furthermore, SBR provides a …

Although autistic females often “camouflage” their autism, few studies examine the degree to which adolescent females demonstrate these behaviors in inclusive school settings. We examined: (a) the nature, extent, and underlying motivation of …

Empathy is multifaceted, involving sharing and understanding the emotional and mental states of others. This study investigated the factor structure of the English-language version of the Empathy Quotient for Children (EQ-C; Auyeung et al., 2009) …

Diminished responding to one’s own name is one of the strongest and earliest predictors of autism. However, research on the neural correlates of this response in autism is scarce. Here we investigate neural responses to hearing the own name in …

There have been disparities reported in prevalence of autism by gender, race, and socioeconomic status with older ages of diagnosis in non-White and in female children. Possible disparities in the ages of autism diagnosis are not well-established …

The evaluation of social communication and interaction (SC/I) behaviors is foundational to the autism identification process. However, this type of evaluation is made difficult by the fact that SC/I is a construct in which perceptions and …

The prevalence of autistic students in schools is continuously increasing. Typically, the social and sensory differences associated with autism can make the school environment difficult to manage. Autistic students are more likely to experience …

This research aimed to establish whether 12 weeks of bicycle-riding skills exercises with massed and distributed practice frequency at low and high intensity affect communication performance and stereotyped behavior among adolescent boys with …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impairments in social affective engagement. The present study uses a mild social stressor task to add to inconclusive past literature concerning differences in affective expressivity between …

Purpose: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often show abnormal speech prosody. Tonal languages can pose more difficulties as speakers need to use acoustic cues to make lexical contrasts while encoding the focal function, but the …

Purpose: Autistic children have an increased likelihood of anxiety, but more research is needed on the characteristics that predict various types of anxiety in this population. Methods: In this study, we examined a range of child and family …

Much of the current autism and gender literature has been based within a medical deficiency model; where both are seen as deficiencies rather than differences. However, there is currently minimal knowledge about the experiences of being an …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or autism, is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication and restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviors and interests (American Psychiatric Association, 2013 …). According to 2020 US national surveillance data, autism has an estimated population prevalence of 1 in 36 among school age children, and is 3.8 times more prevalent in boys than girls (Maenner,

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a complex and heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorder, is characterized by repetitive and restricted behaviours and impairment in social interaction and communication in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …