ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2025
Impact of a Genetic Diagnosis for a Child's Autism on Parental Perceptions.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic review of measures and interventions for caregiver adjustment to child autism diagnosis.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic Review: The Psychosocial Impacts of Autism-Related Genetic Testing.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Rationale and Methods for the Prospective Genetic Risk Evaluation and Assessment (PROGRESS) in Autism Center at Columbia University.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Genetic Testing History in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Ambiguities faced by parents who received a genetic diagnosis for autistic offspring with intellectual disabilities.Journal of community genetics · 2025Article
- How Useful Are Instrumental Examinations in Newly Diagnosed Children with ASD? Insights from Real-World Practice.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Effects of Robots on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Impact of Receiving Genetic Diagnoses on Parents' Perceptions of Their Children with Autism and Intellectual Disability.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Receiving de novo genetic diagnoses for autism with intellectual disability: parents' views of impacts on families' reproductive decisions.Journal of community genetics · 2024Article
- Parents' views of benefits and limitations of receiving genetic diagnoses for their offspring.Child: care, health and development · 2024Article
- Views of Genetic Testing for Autism Among Autism Self-Advocates: A Qualitative Study.AJOB empirical bioethicsArticle
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Abstract
Genetic testing is recommended as part of an autism assessment, and most parents support genetic testing for their minor children. However, the impact on parents of receiving a monogenetic/ copy number variant diagnosis for autism in their child is not well understood. To explore this, we surveyed and interviewed parents of children in the SPARK study, a study of autism that includes genetic testing. Surveys were administered one month before and one and 12 months after parents received their child's genetic result. Interviews were conducted approximately one month after results disclosure. A genetic diagnosis (GD) for their child appeared to reduce parents' sense of self-blame and feelings of guilt, and this impact was relatively stable. The data also indicate a modest impact on parents' actions related to the condition, perceptions of themselves, and some aspects of life planning for their child, as measured by quantitative instruments at one month and 12 months after receipt of results. Other measures of parental identity and expectations for their child, in contrast, showed little change following receipt of genetic findings. Overall, parents who were told that no GD was identified showed minimal changes in their responses over time. These results suggest a discernable but relatively limited impact of genetic test results on parents of children with autism. These results should be reassuring to clinicians caring for children with autism and are consistent with studies in other areas of medicine that have suggested that genetic results tend to have fewer effects-negative or positive-than were anticipated.
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