ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2016
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in Blind Children: Very High Prevalence, Potentially Better Outlook.
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- Social cognition in the blind brain: A coordinate-based meta-analysis.Human brain mapping · 2021Pooled it
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- Modification and Validation of an Autism Observational Assessment Including ADOS-2Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Observational
- Parallel paths: A narrative review exploring autism and its co-occurring conditions.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2025Review
- Assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children with Visual Impairment and Blindness: A Scoping Review.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Sensory-movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: getting a grip on autism.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2025Article
- Cortical Vision Impairment (CVI)-informed assessment and treatment of challenging behavior in a child with SCN2A-related disorder.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2024Article
- Parental and Child Sleep: Children with Vision Impairment, Autistic Children, and Children with Comorbid Vision Impairment and Autism.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Refractive surgery to correct visual impairments in 267 children with autism spectrum and related neuro-developmental disorders: improvements in vision and behavior.Medical hypothesis, discovery & innovation ophthalmology journal · 2024Article
- Visual Autism.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Children's total blindness as a risk factor for early parent-child relationships: preliminary findings from an Italian sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Sensory Deprivation and Psychiatric Disorders: Association, Assessment and Management Strategies.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2022Article
- Considerations for the identification of autism spectrum disorder in children with vision or hearing impairment: A critical review of the literature and recommendations for practice.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2022Review
- The "Primitive Brain Dysfunction" Theory of Autism: The Superior Colliculus Role.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Article
- Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Characterizes the Molecular Heterogeneity of the Larval Zebrafish Optic Tectum.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022Article
- Insights from losing the autism diagnosis: Autism spectrum disorder as a biological entity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Autism and Visual impairment: A First Approach to a Complex Relationship.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2021Article
- Biological Timing and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Role for Circadian Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Cortical Visual Impairments and Learning Disabilities.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Autism spectrum disorders affected 19 of 38 unselected children at a school for the blind in Cordoba, Argentina. Autism was linked to total congenital blindness, not blindness' etiology, acquired or incomplete blindness, sex, overt brain damage, or socioeconomic status. Autism "recovery," had occurred in 4 verbal children. Congenital blindness causes profoundly deviant sensory experience and massive reorganization of brain connectivity. Its ≥ 30 times greater prevalence than in sighted children suggests a distinct pathogenesis. Unawareness of autism's high prevalence in blind individuals includes blindness' rarity, misunderstanding of autism as "disease" rather than dimensional behavioral diagnosis, reluctance to diagnose it in blind children, and ignorance of its potentially more favorable outcome. Future investigation may suggest interventions to prevent or mitigate it.
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