ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017
Autism Spectrum Disorders and Low Mental Age: Diagnostic Stability and Developmental Outcomes in Early Childhood.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Overall prognosis of preschool autism spectrum disorder diagnoses.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Autism Screening Using Parent's Observations of Social Interactions (POSI) in High-Risk Infants.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Cognitive Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Moderating Role of Intervention and ASD Persistence.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Validity of Autism Diagnostic Tools in Medically Complex Young Children: The Toddler Autism Symptom Inventory, TAP, and Childhood Autism Rating Scale.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Reliable Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis for Pediatrics Using Machine Learning and Explainable AI.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Validity of the Toddler Autism Symptom Inventory in Non-Hispanic White and Black Toddlers.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Early identification of autism in Egyptian children using Arabic version of checklist for autism in toddlers-23 (CHAT-23).International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Article
- Autism severity and its relationship to disability.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
- Investigating the borders of autism spectrum disorder: lessons from the former diagnosis of pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Predictors of Developmental Outcome in 4- to 6-Year-Olds With Developmental Disability.Psychiatry investigation · 2022Article
- Symptoms of autism spectrum disorder and developmental delay in children with low mental age.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2022Article
- Neurodevelopmental domain characteristics and their association with core symptoms in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder in China: a nationwide multicenter study.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- The Toddler Autism Symptom Inventory: Use in diagnostic evaluations of toddlers.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2021Article
- Affect and gaze responses during an Emotion-Evoking Task in infants at an increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder.Molecular autism · 2021Article
- Characteristics of toddlers with early versus later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2021Article
- Prevalence and Developmental Profiles of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children With Global Developmental Delay.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- One-Year Follow-Up Diagnostic Stability of Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in a Clinical Sample of Children and Toddlers.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Do Animals Engage Greater Social Attention in Autism? An Eye Tracking Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- A Developmental Profile of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in China Using the Griffiths Mental Development Scales.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children with Low Mental Age.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
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Abstract
Some children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) exhibit low mental age (Low-MA; i.e., cognitive functioning below 12 months). We examined diagnosis, symptom severity, and development in children with ASD-low MA (n = 25), autistic disorder (n = 111), and PDD-NOS (n = 82) at ages two and four. We predicted that some ASD-low MA children would demonstrate just intellectual impairment and not autism symptoms on follow-up, with social deficits at age two attributable to global delays. Instead, most ASD-low MA children (96%) had an ASD at follow-up, compared to children initially diagnosed with autistic disorder (86.5%) or PDD-NOS (73.2%). They showed the least developmental progress and highest symptom severity. Results support diagnosing ASDs in children functioning below a 12-month level.
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