ReviewJournal of autism and developmental disorders2021
Characterization of Special Interests in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Brief Review and Pilot Study Using the Special Interests Survey.
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- Special Interests in Autism: Functions, Benefits, and Challenges.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- Reward processing differences in autism: current understandings and future directions.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Review
- Autistic interests: wide-ranging and intellectually oriented.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- How Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation Impact Cognitive Flexibility in Children With Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- What do autistic children who are interested in letters and numbers do with them? A qualitative study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- The How Rather than the What: A Qualitative Analysis of Modalities and Caregiver Descriptions of Special Interests in Autistic Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Game Changer: Exploring the Role of Board Games in the Lives of Autistic People.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- The Art of the Special Interest: Lexicon-Based Analysis of Longitudinal Changes in Language Patterns Among Neurodiverse Youth Designing Special Interest-Related Digital Art.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Characterising Insistence on Sameness and Circumscribed Interests: A Qualitative Study of Parent Perspectives.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Enhanced pitch discrimination in autistic children with unexpected bilingualism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Categorizing and identifying preferred interests in autistic toddlers.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Enhanced interest in letters and numbers in autistic children.Molecular autism · 2024Article
- "It Helps Make the Fuzzy Go Away": Autistic Adults' Perspectives on Nature's Relationship with Well-being Through the Life Course.Autism in adulthood · 2024Article
- Do focused interests support word learning? A study with autistic and nonautistic children.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
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- Parents' long-term experiences in a recreational dance program for their children with autism spectrum disorder.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Autistic people outperform neurotypicals in a cartoon version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Experience of Autistic Children and Their Families During the Pandemic: From Distress to Coping Strategies.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
Special interests (SIs) are part of the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Though they can have both positive and negative effects on functioning and long-term outcomes, research on SIs is limited. This pilot study used a newly developed parent-report measure, the Special Interest Survey, to characterize SIs in 1992 children with ASD. The mean number of current special interests reported was 9, with television, objects, and music being most commonly endorsed interests. The mean age of onset reported across all categories was 5.24 years, with duration of past interests most often exceeding 2 years. Age of onset, interference, and relative unusualness of the SI was varied across categories. Interference was significantly correlated with the unusualness of the SIs.
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