Sentences with phrase «with autism tend»

Children who are later diagnosed with autism tend to be more interested in objects.

On a related note, it has been known for some time that children with autism tend to have abnormal and less diverse communities of gut bacteria than children without autism.

They've found that Americans and northern Europeans prefer a larger personal space than southern Europeans, for example, whereas people with autism tend to unknowingly invade others» personal space.

The findings support one side of a long - standing debate: Do children with autism tend not to look others in the eye because they are uninterested or because they find eye contact unpleasant?

People with autism tend to integrate auditory and visual information over longer windows of time

Individuals with autism tend to be socially withdrawn, lack communication skills and find it difficult to understand what others are feeling or thinking.

A child with autism tends to use much more energy during the day than other children.

Not exact matches

Some children with special needs (especially any child that falls on the autism spectrum) tend to have sensitive nervous systems.

ASD is usually defined by impairments in social interaction and communication, but many people with autism and Asperger's syndrome (in which symptoms are milder) also tend to fixate on and remember seemingly irrelevant information in their world.

Riby and Hancock suggest that a lack of attention to eyes in autism, and a contrasting abundance of attention in Williams syndrome, may help explain why people with Williams syndrome tend to be so much better than those with autism in understanding gaze cues and expressions.

But these copy - number variants (CNVs) tend to be extremely rare, showing up in less than 1 % of children with autism.

Through her own research, Ruthsatz has found that child prodigies tend to exhibit many traits associated with autism.

The participants with autism, on the other hand, are animated but exhibit a distinct lack of social reciprocity: They do not ask their conversation partners many questions and instead tend to deliver monologues about their own personal interests.

Previous studies have found that people with autism and anorexia tend to score lower on the Eyes Test.

Girls tend to camouflage their autism symptoms more and engage differently with peers and adults than autistic boys, she says.

Instead of just focusing on children with autism, this parenting breakthrough tends to focus on training parents so they can easily recognize cues from their children.

Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders during childhood and adolescence, with a prevalence of 3 — 5 % in school - age children (6 — 12 years) and 10 — 19 % in adolescents (13 — 18 years); 1, 2 and the prevalence of anxiety disorders in this population tends to increase over time.3 Anxiety is the most common psychological symptom reported by children and adolescents; however, presentation varies with age as younger patients often report undifferentiated anxiety symptoms, for example, muscle tension, headache, stomachache or angry outbursts.4 According to the standard diagnostic systems, there are various types of anxiety disorders, for example, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), social phobias (SOP), social anxiety disorder (SAD), panic disorder (PD), overanxious disorder, separation anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD).5 Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents often occur with a number of comorbidities, such as autism spectrum disorders, 6 depressive disorders, 7 conduct disorder, 8 substance abuse9 or suicide - related behaviour.10 Youths with anxiety disorders experience serious impairment in social functioning (eg, poor school achievement; relational problems with family members and peers).11, 12 Childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders can persist despite treatment, 1 and they are associated with later adult psychopathology.13, 14