autism spectrum

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meanings of autismand spectrum

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autism
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈɔː.tɪ.zəm/ us /ˈɑː.tɪ.zəm/
a brain condition that affects the development of social and communication skills in ways that can be severe or slight, and that can make someone's behaviour and interests different from people without ...
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spectrum
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈspek.trəm/ us /ˈspek.trəm/
the set of colours into which a beam of light can be separated, or a range of waves, such as light waves or ...
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Examples of autism spectrum

autism spectrum
The primary aim of the present study was to describe the patterns of early language development in children with autismspectrum disorders.
Using relationship-focused intervention to enhance the social-emotional functioning of young children with autismspectrum disorders.
Further work is required to determine the proportion of children with autismspectrum disorders who show normal as opposed to delayed language development.
The pattern of behavioral abnormalities that define autismspectrum disorders is often associated with heterogeneity in symptom type, severity, and outcome.
Findings from these investigations will have important implications for refining the ways we diagnose and remediate different subgroups of children with autismspectrum disorders.
Although less well studied, an uneven profile of emergent language and nonverbal communicative skills has also been reported for young children with autismspectrum disorder.
Event-related brain potentials reveal anomalies in temporal processing of faces in autismspectrum disorder.
However, to date, there has been no systematic study of physical growth in individuals with an autismspectrum disorder.
It may be that for children with autismspectrum disorders word production builds up without meaning.
Frameworks and methods in diagnosing autismspectrum disorders.
Limbic circuitry in patients with autismspectrum disorders studied with positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Details from these assessments were used to identify individuals of normal intellect with receptive language disorder or autismspectrum disorders.
Individuals were from nuclear families who had at least two children on the autismspectrum as well as a nonaffected sibling when available.
As expected, the present sample of children with an autismspectrum disorder was severely delayed as a group in their early language competence.
Thus, the mechanism by which reference drives acquisition of word use may be intact in children with autismspectrum disorder.
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