Background: Autistic traits exist along a continuum that extends into social functioning in the general population, and they aggregate in the family members of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Quantitative measures are therefore essential when investigating the patterns of familiality of these traits. Prior studies have suggested differential inheritance patterns of autistic traits...

Large autism epidemics have recently been reported in the United States and the United Kingdom. Emerging epidemiologic evidence and biologic plausibility suggest an association between autistic spectrum disorders and mercury exposure. This study compares mercury excretion after a three‐day treatment with an oral chelating agent, meso‐2,3‐ dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), in children with autist...

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have both signed the 2006 UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities a number acts policies which support inclusive education for children disabilities. However, achieving goals equitable at all levels remains challenge, especially autistic children. This article reports experiences mothers from in trying to find schools or autism centres their adolescent sons...

This study examined the relationship between the broader autism phenotype (BAP) and depressed mood in mothers of children with and without autism spectrum disorders (ASD). One hundred and sixty-five mothers (71 with an ASD child and 94 with a non-ASD child) completed a survey of child autism severity (ASD mothers only), parenting stress, BAP, and depression. Mothers of children with ASD reporte...

The chifdren are highly unresponsive. Many handle language badly at best; others do not talk at all. They spend their days lost in apparent daydreams, spinning objects and flapping their hands in front of their faces. They do not come when called. They do not cuddle up to their mothers; often they do not seem to even know their mothers. Four or five of every 10,004) children worldwide is one of...

Healthy behavior implementation is a main priority during this Covid-19 pandemic, especially for children with autistic disorder. Children disorder have high risk of transmission if there no help associated health problems accompaniment. The purpose study to determine whether an effect personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness) on autism, medi...

abstract background: most of the studies about parenting stress among parents of children with autistic spectrum disorder (asd) have been conducted in western societies. the objective of this research, conducted in iran, is to evaluate the parenting stress among fathers and mothers of children with asd and fi nd the correlation between severity of the disorder in children and the level of paren...

introduction: the dominant approach in the etiology and treatment of autism spectrum disorder (asd) is a behavioral approach. proponents of the behavioral model believe that children with autism in access to capabilities in achieving love, empathy, language and creative thinking, have significant fundamental defects.  instead model-based development of individual differences relationship offers...