[PDF] Top 20 Prosodic skills in typical development and in autism spectrum disorders (opening conference)

... (Wetherby and Prizant, 2005; Lord & Paul, 1997; Rutter, 1978) Muitas crianças podem usar sistemas de comunicação aumentativas ou alternativos de forma fiável para pedir e nomear, mas ainda não desenvolveram a ... See full document

... as in the case of [27] have experimented with animal-assisted therapies (AAT) which is defined as "an intervention designed to improve the cognitive, physical, social and emotional functioning of a ... See full document

... calcium and phospholipid- binding proteins, has been implicated in many diverse cellular functions, including anti-inflammatory effects [18,59,60], cell growth [61], apoptosis [62], membrane fusion, ... See full document

... emotional skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders ...game and a playware object, which is a physical component that allows the user to interactively play the serious ... See full document

... practice, and reinforcement and are based on a behaviorist approach ...diagnosed in preschool ...Eaves and Ho [10] classified roughly half as having ‘‘poor’’ outcomes in spite of being ... See full document

... dificulty in establishing diagnostic boundaries between diseases consid- ered to be invasive development disorders (CID-10; OMS, 1993), such as Asperger’s syn- drome, non-speciied pervasive ... See full document

... OCD and autism spectrum disorders can be distinguished on the basis of their current repetitive behaviors and thoughts [29, 37], differ- ential diagnoses of OCD and autism ... See full document

... studies in such a broad and subtly complex field as social cognition, marred by an apparent infinity of measurement tools and concepts whose similarities and boundaries are not always ... See full document

... these skills is important for intervention as these represent foundational skills for language ...seen in the transition from the use of isolated to combined ...words and have a repertoire ... See full document

... differences in the sample, because many studies from the Anglo-Saxon literature are indicating exactly the ...opposite. In their research Silva and Schalock found that the parents of children with ... See full document

... concerning autism, which suggests that it involves atypical information processes, where information seems to be primarily processed analytically – or locally – rather than in the typical holistic – ... See full document

... vaccinations in autistic children with an underlying mitochondrial cytopathy ...child’s autism/neurodevelopmental deterioration appeared to follow vaccination ...events in this case, such timing does ... See full document

... studies and the current study. IQ and autistic traits are unlikely to have caused the dis- crepancy, because the scores of these measures did not differ greatly between the studies (although Perry et ... See full document

... levels and possible storage disorders [16]. Insufficient iron intake and subsequent iron deficiency (ID) during pre- and postnatal periods may significantly impair neurodevelopment, with ... See full document

... identification and production of gestures, to this day it is still unclear how meaningful gestures (intransitive and pantomime) are ...processed. In this study, we aim to further assess what sets ... See full document

... parent and the environment in which the parent appraises the demands of being a parent as exceeding one’s resources, leaving the parent to feel she or he has difficulty playing the role of parent ... See full document

... A sample of high-functioning adults HFA with ASD n = 20 and a sample of typical developed individuals n = 20 matched for age, education, and verbal IQ performed two tasks with natural co[r] ... See full document

... with autism show weak or no significant activation in this area, but show activation of areas not commonly associated with facial recognition ...with autism 'see' faces using neural systems different ... See full document

... observed in the familiarity test in the ASD group is surprising because it contrasts with the findings of previous studies with similar design [16, ...difference in the speech materials used ... See full document

... between prosodic abilities and executive function ...deficits in executive functions (EFs) and prosodic impairments are characteristics of autism, we examined how EFs are related ... See full document