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Estimated Therapy Costs and Downstream Cost Consequences of iBASIS-Video Interaction to Promote Positive Parenting Intervention vs Usual Care Among Children Displaying Early Behavioral Signs of Autism in AustraliaThe growing global prevalence of autism spectrum disorder is associated with increasing costs for support services. Ascertaining the effects of a successful preemptive intervention for infants showing early behavioral signs of autism on human services budgets is highly policy relevant.
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Assessing Restricted and Repetitive Behaviours in Online-Sampled Autistic and Non-autistic Individuals: Factor Structure of the Repetitive Behaviours Questionnaire for Adults (RBQ-2A)The Repetitive Behaviours Questionnaire for Adults (RBQ-2A) measures two factors of restricted and repetitive behaviours (RRBs) associated with autism. However, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) provides four criteria for RRBs: repetitive motor behaviours, insistence on sameness, restricted interests, and interest in sensory aspects of the environment (or atypical sensitivity).
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Further evidence of testosterone link to autismA new study from Perth's The Kids for Child Health Research has uncovered more evidence of a link between early testosterone levels and autism.
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Developing national guidelines for intervention with children on the autism spectrum in AustraliaInvestigators: Prof Andrew Whitehouse, Prof David Trembath Project description This project involves developing a national practice guideline for
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Sibling’s likelihood of autism diagnosis impacted by age gap, study findsThe Curtin University research in collaboration with The Kids Research Institute Australia, published in Autism Research, investigated more than 925,000 births in Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
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Hospitalisation rates for children with intellectual disability or autism born in Western Australia 1983-1999: A population-based cohort studyID and/or ASD were found to be associated with an increased risk of hospitalisation compared with the remainder of the population.
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Autism spectrum disorder in children born preterm: Role of exposure to perinatal inflammationThis review aims to summarise and evaluate the potential mechanisms and evidence for the role of prenatal infection on the central nervous system, and how it...