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Circumscribed interests in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A look beyond trains, planes, and clocks.
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- Identification of diagnostic markers for ASD: a restrictive interest analysis based on EEG combined with eye tracking.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Autism interest intensity in early childhood associates with executive functioning but not reward sensitivity or anxiety symptoms.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2022Article
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- Toward better characterization of restricted and unusual interests in youth with autism.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2022Article
- Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised Within DSM-5 Framework: Test of Reliability and Validity in Chinese Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Brief Report: Investigating the Motivations and Autistic Traits of Video Gamers.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Characterization of Special Interests in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Brief Review and Pilot Study Using the Special Interests Survey.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Review
- Visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study.PloS one · 2021Article
- Examining How Types of Object Distractors Distinctly Compete for Facial Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Eye Tracking.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Learning with individual-interest outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
- Parent and professional perspectives on behavioral inflexibility in autism spectrum disorders: A qualitative study.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2019Article
- Reduced White Matter Fiber Density in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Article
- Largely Typical Electrophysiological Affective Responses to Special Interest Stimuli in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2018Article
- What interests young autistic children? An exploratory study of object exploration and repetitive behavior.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
Adolescence is a unique developmental period, characterized by physical and emotional growth and significant maturation of cognitive and social skills. For individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), it is also a vulnerable period as cognitive and social skills can deteriorate. Circumscribed interests (CIs), idiosyncratic areas of intense interest and focus, are a core symptom of ASD that may be associated with social development. Yet, relatively little is known about the expression of CIs in adolescents with ASD. Many studies investigating CIs have used images depicting items of special interest; however, it is not clear how images should be customized for adolescent studies. The goal of this study was to gain insight into the types of images that may be appropriate for studies of CIs in adolescents with ASD. To this end, we used a mixed methods design that included, 1) one-on-one interviews with 10 adolescents (4 with ASD and 6 TD), to identify categories of images that were High Autism Interest ('HAI') or High Typically Developing Interest ('HTD'), and 2) an online survey taken by fifty-three adolescents with ASD (42 male) and 135 typically developing (TD) adolescents (55 male) who rated how much they liked 105 'HAI' and 'HTD' images. Although we found a significant interaction between 'HAI' and 'HTD' categories and diagnosis, neither group significantly preferred one category over the other, and only one individual category ('Celebrities') showed a significant group effect, favored by TD adolescents. Males significantly preferred 'HAI' images relative to females, and TD adolescents significantly preferred images with social content relative to adolescents with ASD. Our findings suggest that studies investigating affective or neural responses to CI-related stimuli in adolescents should consider that stereotypical ASD interests (e.g. trains, gadgets) may not accurately represent individual adolescents with ASD, many of whom show interests that overlap with TD adolescents (e.g. video games).
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