The importance and challenges of observing social interactions in autistic preschoolers during inclusive educational settings: A scoping review.

Background And Aims: A growing number of autistic children have access to inclusive education programs as early as kindergarten. However, little is known about how they actually participate in social interactions and develop their communicative skills according to the parameters of this environment. The aim of this article is to review observational studies on this topic and critically analyze their methodological choices by arguing on the aspects of communication skills noted in the observation grids.

Typical and atypical pragmatic functioning of ASD children and their partners: a study of oppositional episodes in everyday interactions.

Pragmatic functioning of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children is rarely examined in socially-meaningful contexts. This study investigates the way oppositional episodes are handled in such contexts by 25 families, 10 with ASD and 15 with typically-developing children. Oppositions occur whenever someone protests, refuses or denies someone else's action, request or statement.

Impact of prenatal diagnosis on neurocognitive outcomes in children with transposition of the great arteries.

Objectives: To assess the effect of prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease on neurocognitive outcomes in children with d-transposition of the great arteries (TGA) after surgical correction.

Study Design: A prospective study of children born with a TGA between 2003 and 2005 and aged 4 to 6 years was conducted. General intelligence, language, executive functions, and social cognition scores and preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative factors were evaluated according to time of TGA diagnosis.

Executive function and theory of mind in school-aged children after neonatal corrective cardiac surgery for transposition of the great arteries.

Aim: cardiac malformations resulting in cyanosis, such as transposition of the great arteries (TGA), have been associated with neurodevelopmental dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to assess, for the first time, theory of mind (ToM), which is a key component of social cognition and executive functions in school-aged children with TGA.

Method: twenty-one children (14 males, seven females; mean age 7y 4mo; SD 3mo) who underwent neonatal open-heart surgery for TGA using full-flow cardiopulmonary bypass were compared with 21 typically developing age-matched children (12 males, nine females; mean age 7y 6mo; SD 3.

Superior temporal sulcus anatomical abnormalities in childhood autism: a voxel-based morphometry MRI study.

The underlying neurobiology of autism, a severe pervasive developmental disorder, remains unknown. Few neocortical brain MRI abnormalities have been reported. Using rest functional brain imaging, two independent studies have described localized bilateral temporal hypoperfusion in children with primary autism.