The J apanese Multidimensional Attitudes Scale Toward Persons With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Support, Inclusion, and Special Education Teachers' Attitudes toward the Education of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

This study is aimed at assessing special education teachers' attitudes toward teaching pupils with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and at determining the role of variables associated with a positive attitude towards the children and their education. Sixty-nine special education teachers were interviewed. The interview included two multiple-choice Likert-type questionnaires, one about teachers'...

Visual Orienting Among Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders

INTRODUCTION Atypical attentional behaviour is emerging as a robust marker of ASD in children as young as 12 months in both retrospective (1, 2) and prospective longitudinal studies (3). Young children as well as high-functioning adults with ASD exhibit unusual looking behaviour not only to people but to objects as well (4), suggesting atypical looking behaviour is not strictly a social problem...

Motor-linked implicit learning in persons with autism spectrum disorders.

Fifteen adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and 18 age- and IQ-matched adults with typical development (TD) completed a serial reaction time task (SRT) to examine possible motor-linked implicit learning impairments in persons with ASD. Measures were taken to decrease the role of explicit learning in the SRT. Results showed that participants with AS...

Social Competence in Children with Learning and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Objective: The present study has been carried out to compare the social competence in two groups of students with Autism Disorder (AD) and Learning Disorders (LD). Methods: This research was a kind of descriptive research with 2 comparative groups. 90 learning and Autistic disorder students aged 10 to 13 years (45 LD & 45 AD) were selected randomly as a statistical sample. For the assessment...

Public attitudes toward persons with mental illness.