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ArticleMolecular autism2016

Bengali translation and characterisation of four cognitive and trait measures for autism spectrum conditions in India.

Alokananda Rudra, Jai Ranjan Ram, Tom Loucas, Matthew K Belmonte, Bhismadev Chakrabarti

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Article in Molecular autism, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  1. Meta-Analysis of the RDoC Social Processing Domain across Units of Analysis in Children and Adolescents.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53
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  4. Autism in India: Time for a national programme.The Indian journal of medical research · 2023
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Alokananda RudraSchool of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK ; Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Jai Ranjan RamMental Health Foundation, Kolkata, India.
Tom LoucasSchool of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
Matthew K BelmonteThe Com DEALL Trust, Bangalore, India ; Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
Bhismadev ChakrabartiSchool of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6649-7895

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Abstract

backgroundAutism is characterised by atypical social-communicative behaviour and restricted range of interests and repetitive behaviours. These features exist in a continuum in the general population. Behavioural measures validated across cultures and languages are required to quantify the dimensional traits of autism in these social and non-social domains. Bengali is the seventh most spoken language in the world. However, there is a serious dearth of data on standard measures of autism-related social and visual cognition in Bengali.

methodsBengali translations of two measures related to social-communicative functioning (the Children's Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) and a facial emotion recognition test with stimuli taken from the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces database), one measure of visual perceptual disembedding (the Embedded Figures Test), and a questionnaire measure (the Children's Empathy Quotient) were tested in 25 children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) and 26 control children (mean age = 10.7 years) in Kolkata, India. Group differences were analysed by

resultsBehavioural and trait measures were associated with group differences in the expected directions: ASC children scored lower on the Children's Empathy Quotient and the RMET, as well as on facial emotion recognition, but were faster and more accurate on the Embedded Figures Test. Distributional properties of these measures within groups are similar to those reported in Western countries.

conclusionsThese results provide an empirical demonstration of cross-cultural generalisability and applicability of these standard behavioural and trait measures related to autism, in a major world language.

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EmpathyFacial ExpressionTranslationsAdolescentAutism Spectrum DisorderCase-Control StudiesChildCognitionCross-Cultural ComparisonFemaleHumansIndiaIntelligence TestsLanguageMaleRegression AnalysisAssessmentAutismBehaviourBengaliCentral coherenceIndiaPerceptual construalTheory of mindTranslationValidity

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