RESEARCH
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- Caregiver greeting to infants under 6 months already reflects emerging differences in those later diagnosed with autism
Abstract:
As infants develop, caregivers adjust their behaviour to scaffold their infant’s emerging skills, such that changes in infants’ social abilities are expected to elicit changes in caregiver behaviour. We examined whether changes in the probability of infant-directed caregiving behaviour—specifically, greeting, a ubiquitous signal used by caregivers to initiate reciprocal interactions—differ between infant–caregiver dyads with an infant later diagnosed with autism and dyads with a neurotypically developing infant during infants’ first 6 months. Using longitudinal data from 163 dyads, we found that caregivers in autism dyads (n = 40) used greeting less and at later infant ages than caregivers with a neurotypically developing infant (neurotypical dyads, n = 83). Caregivers in dyads with infants at elevated familial genetic likelihood for autism who did not receive an autism diagnosis (EL-non-autism dyads, n = 40) showed no differences in greeting compared with neurotypical dyads. Socioeconomic status partially mediated the difference between autism and neurotypical dyads. These findings show that autism and socioeconomic status were associated with the mutually adapted dynamics of dyadic interaction beginning in the first postnatal weeks. Importantly, differences in caregiver greeting observed in autism dyads are not interpreted as suboptimal behaviour from caregivers but rather indicate how early emerging social differences related to autism, years before overt features are present, may alter social learning opportunities elicited by the infant.
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- Embryonic origin of two ASD subtypes of social symptom severity: the larger the brain cortical organoid size, the more severe the social symptoms
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Social affective and communication symptoms are central to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet their severity differs across toddlers: Some toddlers with ASD display improving abilities across early ages and develop good social and language skills, while others with “profound” autism have persistently low social, language and cognitive skills and require lifelong care. The biological origins of these opposite ASD social severity subtypes and developmental trajectories are not known.
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- Life After Perinatal Stroke
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Perinatal strokes are a well-defined group of cerebrovascular diseases that damage the brain early in life and account for most cases of hemiparetic cerebral palsy. The motor deficits are now sufficiently researched to inform early prognostication, the construction of developmental plasticity models, and new clinical trials. Nonmotor outcomes are more complex and are challenging to measure given their emergence with time during developmental maturation. Several fundamental gaps in the understanding of perinatal stroke outcomes are of essential clinical relevance. How can 2 children with virtually identical brain lesions acquired at the same time have extremely different outcomes? How does a child develop new skills that his or her brain has never possessed during stroke recovery? How do we measure outcome as the child continues to grow into deficits with maturation? What are the modulators of developmental plasticity that might be targeted to achieve better functional outcomes? We review the current state of knowledge on perinatal stroke outcomes and attempt to highlight elements that might provide insight into these pressing questions
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Life After Perinatal Stroke | Stroke
- The use of Assistive Technology in Education: A Guide for
Teachers and Schools
This is a 112 page document of really great information for teachers and parents to work collaberatively to help the child in need of an assistive technological device. There is a Table of Contents at the beginning of the document to help navigate the document with ease.
The use of Assistive Technology in Education: A Guide for Teachers and Schools
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