Although autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are among the most heritable of all neuropsychiatric syndromes, most affected children are born to unaffecte…
A child-led therapy that supports the social development of babies showing early signs of autism has found a significant reduction in social communic…
It is biologically plausible that risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is elevated by both short and long interpregnancy intervals (IPI). We conduc…
Naturalistic developmental behavioural interventions are promising approaches for young children with, or suspected of having, autism spectrum disord…
The Curtin University research in collaboration with The Kids Research Institute Australia, published in Autism Research, investigated more than 925,…
There are no well-established biomedical treatments for the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A small number of studies suggest that r…
This study investigated dental hospitalisations in Western Australian (WA) children with intellectual disability (ID) and/or autism spectrum disorder…
Impairment in social motivation (SM) has been suggested as a key mechanism underlying social communication deficits observed in autism spectrum disor…
Social communication difficulties in autism spectrum disorder have been associated with poor Theory of Mind (ToM), an ability to attribute mental sta…