ReviewDevelopment and psychopathology2020
Affording autism an early brain development re-definition.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
- Who, when, where, and why: A systematic review of "late diagnosis" in autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Pooled it
- Early and Repeated Screening Detects Autism Spectrum Disorder.The Journal of pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Reduced Context Effect on Lexical Tone Normalization in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Speech-Specific Mechanism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Unstable or Stable? Prosodic Features and Voice Quality in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Social communication development in a contingent world: insights from autism.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Review
- Detection of Idiosyncratic Gaze-Fingerprint Signatures in Humans.Psychological science · 2026Article
- Development and validation of an early screening tool for young children with autism spectrum disorders: the checklist for Chinese toddlers with autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Characterizing the Relationship Among the Social Competence Elements in Autistic Adolescents.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Eye Contact: To Teach or Not to Teach? That is Not the Question.Perspectives on behavior science · 2025Article
- Limitations of genomics to predict and treat autism: a disorder born in the womb.Journal of medical genetics · 2025Review
- Temperament Profiles at Age 18 Months as Distinctive Predictors of Elevated ASD- and ADHD-Trait Scores and Their Co-Occurrence at Age 8-9: HBC Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Parent-Child Interactions May Help to Explain Relations Between Parent Characteristics and Clinically Observed Child Autistic Behaviours.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Expert Clinician Certainty in Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder in 16-30-Month-Olds: A Multi-site Trial Secondary Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- A Contextual Behavioral Framework for Enhancing Cultural Responsiveness in Behavioral Service Delivery for Latino Families.Behavior analysis in practice · 2023Review
- Eye Gaze in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review of Neural Evidence for the Eye Avoidance Hypothesis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Review
- The earlier the better: An RCT of treatment timing effects for toddlers on the autism spectrum.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2023Article
- Translating advances in developmental social neuroscience into greater access to early diagnosis in autism spectrum disorder.Medicina · 2023Review
- A Comparison of the Clinical Presentation of Preterm Birth and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Commonalities and Distinctions in Children Under 3.Clinics in perinatology · 2023Review
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- Emerging signs of autism spectrum disorder in infancy: Putative neural substrate.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2022Review
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6 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The national priority to advance early detection and intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has not reduced the late age of ASD diagnosis in the US over several consecutive Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveillance cohorts, with traditionally under-served populations accessing diagnosis later still. In this review, we explore a potential perceptual barrier to this enterprise which views ASD in terms that are contradicted by current science, and which may have its origins in the current definition of the condition and in its historical associations. To address this perceptual barrier, we propose a re-definition of ASD in early brain development terms, with a view to revisit the world of opportunities afforded by current science to optimize children's outcomes despite the risks that they are born with. This view is presented here to counter outdated notions that potentially devastating disability is determined the moment a child is born, and that these burdens are inevitable, with opportunities for improvement being constrained to only alleviation of symptoms or limited improvements in adaptive skills. The impetus for this piece is the concern that such views of complex neurodevelopmental conditions, such as ASD, can become self-fulfilling science and policy, in ways that are diametrically opposed to what we currently know, and are learning every day, of how genetic risk becomes, or not, instantiated as lifetime disabilities.
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