Adapted Social Skills Program Improved Social Knowledge, Responsiveness, and Engagement
16-week PEERS® Program Aided Young Adults with ASD and/or Mild Intellectual Impairment PEERS®, the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills, is a 16-week evidence-based, parent/caregiver-assisted social skills training program. The program aims to teach adolescents and young adults on the spectrum to make and keep friends, develop and maintain romantic relationships, as […]
Children with ASD Focused on Sameness Are More Prone to Anxiety
Wearing the Same Clothes, Taking the Same Routes, and Insistence on Following a Precise Routine Shows Problematic Rigidity A new Canadian study has found that children with autism who strongly prefer “sameness” in their daily lives may be more prone to develop anxiety. This research also discovered that interventions that address this tendency early on […]
Community Shares | August 29th 2022
For the first time, a team of researchers from Brown University has recorded electrical signals in the human brain associated with ebbs and flows of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms over an extended period. This new study could be an essential advancement for an emerging therapy called deep brain stimulation (DBS), which may be responsive to […]
Psychiatric Training Gaps Continue for Treating Autism and Intellectual Disability
Residents Continue to Receive Limited Training Experience in ASD, Even as Rates Surge Children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID) have higher rates of co-occurring psychiatric conditions and symptoms than the general population. Anxiety disorders, mood disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, suicidal ideation, and aggression are just a few common psychiatric conditions […]
Placentation Syndromes Associated with Increased Rates of Autism
Defective Placentas Could Cause Improper Brain Development, Brain Injury, Increased Inflammatory Response Due to a Dysregulated Immune System, and Oxidative Stress Defective placentation describes several syndromic manifestations that can adversely affect fetal brain development. These conditions include placental abruption, term preeclampsia with a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant, preterm preeclampsia, and spontaneous preterm birth. A recent Swedish […]
Community Shares | August 22nd 2022
Community Shares: New research, which included parent-reported data on over 17,000 individuals with autism, has discovered substantial variability in the average ages of developmental milestone acquisition for individuals on the spectrum. The study’s authors found developmental delays increased with co-occurring intellectual disability, the presence of genetic variants associated with neurodevelopmental disorders, earlier autism diagnosis, and […]
