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Author : Anthony F. Rotatori,Julie A. Deisinger
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781784416577
This proposed volume will provide in-depth coverage about a construct known as the broad autism phenotype (BAP).
Author : Anthony F. Rotatori,Julie A. Deisinger
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1784416584
This proposed volume will provide in-depth coverage about a construct known as the broad autism phenotype (BAP).
Author : Marta Godoy Giménez
Publisher : Universidad Almería
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9788413512167
The present dissertation has converged the knowledge of three fundamental areas of psychology: cognitive psychology, psychobiology, and psychometrics with the purpose of improving the operational and relational definitions of the broad autism phenotype (BAP) and its measurement process. Especially, it lies essence in psychometrics and its role in reconnecting how people show certain milder autistic behaviours with a theoretical and psychometric model capable of representing an operationalization of the construct in the Spanish and English general populations and developing a new measurement tool. This book is organized into three blocks: in the theoretical framework, we define autism (and BAP) from a dimensional perspective and expose the state of the art in its conceptualization and measurement. We finish by establishing the objectives and the research plan. The second block deepens into the empirical studies conducted during my Ph.D. apprenticeship. The first study presents the Spanish adaptation of the Broad AautismPhenotype Questionnaire (BAPQ), and the second study deepens into the BAPQ psychometric properties from the item response theory (IRT) perspective. In the third study , the ASD and BAP definitions are harmonized, and then a group of experts attempts to reshape the items of the most applied tests to assess BAP into its updated operationalization. The sixth chapter introduces the Broad Autism Phenotype-International Test (BAP-IT), which assesses the BAP two-domain operationalization in two different languages, Spanish and English. Finally, the third block exposes a general discussion of the overall results, draws certain conclusions, states the research limitations, and delineates future research approaches.
Author : Edward Sucksmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Autism
ISBN : OCLC:1109001014
Author : Susan Lowinger,Shiri Pearlman-Avnion
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030288334
This book evaluates how autism is experienced and addressed in four areas critical to the developmental phase of adulthood: self-awareness, individuality, comprehensive support systems, and the dissemination of information and expanded education. The editors present comprehensive coverage of new developments in the field of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), particularly with regards to the updating of diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5 and an increased level of interest in research on adults with ASD. Contributors also make recommendations regarding services that should be provided to people with ASD based on recognition of their needs, the frequent lack of accessibility to relevant services, and an understanding of how a person's living situation both influences and is influenced by the way they conduct their lives. Among the topics discussed: The distinctive stage of Emerging Adulthood in individuals with ASD Late diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder Sexuality and romantic relationships among people with ASD Parents, siblings, and communities of individuals with ASD Cultural-demographic influences on life choices among people with ASD Adult women on the high-functioning autism spectrum The experience of academia and employment for people with ASD Autism in Adulthood is a unique resource for professionals, clinicians, researchers and caregivers that emphasizes both theoretical and practical information regarding ASD in the critical adult stage of life.
Author : Paolo Sassone-Corsi,Yves Christen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319270692
Recent years have seen spectacular advances in the field of circadian biology. These have attracted the interest of researchers in many fields, including endocrinology, neurosciences, cancer, and behavior. By integrating a circadian view within the fields of endocrinology and metabolism, researchers will be able to reveal many, yet-unsuspected aspects of how organisms cope with changes in the environment and subsequent control of homeostasis. This field is opening new avenues in our understanding of metabolism and endocrinology. A panel of the most distinguished investigators in the field gathered together to discuss the present state and the future of the field. The editors trust that this volume will be of use to those colleagues who will be picking up the challenge to unravel how the circadian clock can be targeted for the future development of specific pharmacological strategies toward a number of pathologies.
Author : Christina Royster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:859334942
Author : Olga Bogdashina
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1843101661
This book will assist practitioners who work with autistic people to comprehend sensory perceptual differences in autism. Strategies for dealing with sensory integration dysfunction are presented in a manner that can easily be understood by practitioners and carers.
Author : Lynn Waterhouse
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780123914132
The media, scientific researchers, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual all refer to "autism" as if it were a single disorder or a single disorder over a spectrum. However, autism is unlike any single disorder in a variety of ways. No single brain deficit is found to cause it, no single drug is found to affect it, and no single cause or cure has been found despite tremendous research efforts to find same. Rethinking Autism reviews the scientific research on causes, symptomology, course, and treatment done to date...and draws the potentially shocking conclusion that "autism" does not exist as a single disorder. The conglomeration of symptoms exists, but like fever, those symptoms aren’t a disease in themselves, but rather a result of some other cause(s). Only by ceasing to think of autism as a single disorder can we ever advance research to more accurately parse why these symptoms occur and what the different and varied causes may be. Autism is a massive worldwide problem with increasing prevalence rates, now thought to be as high as 1 in 38 children (Korea) and 1 in 100 children (CDC- US) Autism is the 3rd most common developmental disability; 400,000 people in the United States alone have autism Autism affects the entire brain, including communication, social behavior, and reasoning and is lifelong There is no known cause and no cure Funding for autism research quadrupled from 1995 to 2000 up to $45 million, and the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee has recommended $1 billion funding from 2010-2015
Author : David Amaral,Daniel Geschwind,Geraldine Dawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1456 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199707478
Autism is an emerging area of basic and clinical research, and has only recently been recognized as a major topic in biomedical research. Approximately 1 in 150 children are diagnosed as autistic, so it is also an intense growth area in behavioral and educational treatments. Financial resources have begun to be raised for more comprehensive research and an increasing number of scientists are becoming involved in autism research. In many respects, autism has become a model for conducting translational research on a psychiatric disorder. This text provides a comprehensive summary of all current knowledge related to the behavioral, experiential, and biomedical features of the autism spectrum disorders including major behavioral and cognitive syndromology, common co-morbid conditions, neuropathology, neuroimmunology, and other neurological correlates such as seizures, allergy and immunology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, and epidemiology. Edited by three leading researchers, this volume contains over 80 chapters and nine shorter commentaries by thought leaders in the field, making the book a virtual "who's who" of autism research. This carefully developed book is a comprehensive and authoritative reference for what we know in this area as well as a guidepost for the next several years in all areas of autism research.
Author : Benjamin H. Feldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Autism
ISBN : OCLC:927149005
The Broader Autistic Phenotype (BAP) consists of milder Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) characteristics that occur in some relatives of people with ASD. The core ASD deficits in communication, socialization, and stereotyped/repetitive behavior have been found to manifest themselves separately in the BAP. Due to the strong hereditary nature of ASD, the ASD components expressed in family members of people with ASD meeting criteria for the BAP can serve as endophenotypes in the study of ASD. Many of the social problems experienced by people with ASD stem from deficits in facial processing. Since the BAP consists of mild socialization impairment, face processing has also been studied in relatives of people with ASD, with results showing subclinical similarity to ASD. Lacking in these face processing studies has been: the examination of typical ASD face processing strategies, attention to the siblings of people with ASD who meet criteria for the BAP, and examination of the relationship of the severity level of the proband with ASD to the BAP level and face processing ability of the relatives of people with ASD. This study measured face identity discrimination and emotion recognition in 178 parents and siblings of people with ASD using the Let's Face It Skills Battery. In addition, participants were assessed on the Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire, and the Social Communication Questionnaire. While overall face processing scores of family members of people with ASD meeting criteria for the BAP were similar to those family members not meeting BAP criteria, relatives of people with ASD scoring high on the BAPQ component of Rigidity performed worse on face processing measures than relatives of people with ASD scoring low on Rigidity. BAPQ scores did show some negative correlations with LFI scores, i.e. the higher the BAPQ score the lower the LFI score. In addition, it was found in families of people with ASD that males had higher BAP levels and worse face discrimination processing skills than females. Finally, when BAP level, gender, and severity of the proband with ASD were placed a multiple regression model to predict LFI performance, it was found that overall the model was a better fit than just IQ alone, with BAPQ Rigidity level, BAPQ Pragmatic Language, and Gender as the significant predictors of LFI score. The results indicate that while face processing is an endophenotype of ASD, it may be more related to Rigidity components that social Aloofness. Besides drawing attention to face processing interventions for people with ASD that build on the component of Rigidity rather than correcting social Aloofness, this study may also help clinicians better understand the profiles of the families of people with ASD as well.
Author : Stephen Deutsch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789533074955
Estimated prevalence rates of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have increased at an alarming rate over the past decade; current estimates stand as high as 1 in 110 persons in the population with a higher ratio of affected males to females. In addition to their emotional impact on the affected persons and their family members (in fact, the latter are often unrecognized unaffected “patients” themselves), the economic and social impacts of ASDs on society are staggering. Persons with ASDs will need interdisciplinary approaches to complex treatment and life planning, including, but not limited to, special education, speech and language therapy, vocational skills training and rehabilitation, social skills training and cognitive remediation, in addition to pharmacotherapy. The current book highlights some of the recent research on nosology, etiology, and pathophysiology. Additionally, the book touches on the implications of new research for treatment and genetic counseling. Importantly, because the field is advancing rapidly, no book can be considered the final word or finished product; thus, the availability of open access rapid publication is a mechanism that will help to assure that readers remain current and up-to-date.
Author : Alexandra Horowitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642539947
This book highlights the state of the field in the new, provocative line of research into the cognition and behavior of the domestic dog. Eleven chapters from leading researchers describe innovative methods from comparative psychology, ethology and behavioral biology, which are combined to create a more comprehensive picture of the behavior of Canis familiaris than ever before. Each of the book’s three parts highlights one of the perspectives relevant to providing a full understanding of the dog. Part I covers the perceptual abilities of dogs and the effect of interbreeding. Part II includes observational and experimental results from studies of social cognition – such as learning and social referencing – and physical cognition in canids, while Part III summarizes the work in the field to date, reviewing various conceptual and methodological approaches and testing anthropomorphisms with regard to dogs. The final chapter discusses the practical application of behavioral and cognitive results to promote animal welfare. This volume reflects a modern shift in science toward considering and studying domestic dogs for their own sake, not only insofar as they reflect back on human beings.
Author : John J Cannell, MD
Publisher : Sunrise River Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781934716465
Autism affects 1 in every 68 American newborns. Cases of autism are increasing at a rate of 12% every year and families spend up to $100,000 per year to manage this disease; lifetime expenses may exceed $3 million per sufferer. What has changed to cause this rapid rise in the incidence of autism spectrum disorder? Who’s the most susceptible? And what can be done about it? In this truly groundbreaking work, autism researcher John Cannell, MD, provides the most comprehensive and compelling explanation to date regarding the causes, prevention strategies, and treatment protocols that, in many cases, reverse autistic symptoms. Cannell, founder of the Vitamin D Council, draws on decades of research to make the strong case that vitamin D is very important in preventing autism and that high doses of vitamin D can be quite successful in treating some people with an autism spectrum disorder. He provides a thorough explanation of the relationship between autism and vitamin D, dispels many of the existing theories related to causes of autism, and presents a solid foundation for a revolutionary new approach to preventing and treating autism. Also included is a thorough discussion about obtaining safe levels of vitamin D through supplementation, sunlight, and diet. Heartwarming and encouraging case studies round out this innovative new book.
Author : Yarbrough, Jillian
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799877349
Parenting and educating a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a unique experience for many reasons. Too often, the K-12 school system overlooks the needs of children with ASDs or educators find themselves unprepared to provide a learning environment that fulfills these needs. Parents of children with ASDs must also stay informed on autism support services, school system practices, developmental pediatrics, and more in order to be an active voice in how their children are supported within the school system. Understanding Parent Experiences and Supporting Autistic Children in the K-12 School System shares the experiences of children with ASDs in order to develop more supportive practices for these children as they navigate the K-12 system. It also offers best practices, strategies, and information for educators to provide a sufficient learning environment to support children with ASDs within their classrooms. Covering topics such as assistive tools, inclusive practices, and parent experiences, it is an ideal resource for K-12 administration and faculty, educators, pre-service teachers, policymakers, parents, researchers, and academicians.