Investigators: Prof Andrew Whitehouse, Prof David Trembath Project description This project involves developing a national practice guideline for supporting the development and participation of children on the autism spectrum and their families. The ...

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In this paper we review the evidence that fetuses gestated with a male co-twin are masculinized in development, perhaps due to the influence of prenatal... ...

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• 2011
• November 2011

We investigated the relationship between autistic-like traits in early childhood and age at menarche in typically developing girls. ...

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• 2011
• August 2011

The current investigation measured AT in 360 males and 400 males from the general population close to two decades apart, using the Pervasive Developmental... ...

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• 2011
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Although many toddlers with expressive vocabulary delay ("late talkers") present with age-appropriate language skills by the time they are of school age... ...

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• 2011
• July 2011

Modern societies are challenged by "wicked problems" - by definition, those that are difficult to define, multi-casual and hard to treat. ...

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• January 2011

This paper discusses changes in diagnostic criteria, decreasing age at diagnosis, improved case ascertainment, diagnostic substitution, and social influences. ...

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• 2010
• February 2010

Evidence that some children also develop autistic symptomatology over time has raised suggestions that developmental language disorder... ...

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• 2009
• July 2009

An estimated half of all children with cerebral palsy also have comorbid intellectual disability, the domains of QOL for these children are not well understood ...

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• 2017
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Technology-based interventions may provide a relatively low-cost addition to existing therapist-delivered interventions for children with ASD ...

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• 2017
• September 2017

The aim of the paper is to outline the future of early identification and intervention of ASD and the research goals to be addressed to achieve this vision. ...

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• 2017
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Our findings are in line with a number of epidemiological studies which show a positive association between breastfeeding and OM in early childhood ...

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• 2017
• February 2017