A Systematic Review of Parental Self-Efficacy in Parents of Autistic Children.

Parental self-efficacy (PSE) assesses a parent's expectations and beliefs about their ability to effectively parent their child. PSE has implications for a parent's well-being, parenting practices, mental health, the parent-child relationship, and child adjustment. While PSE has been extensively examined within the broader parenting literature, the examination of PSE specifically for parents of autistic children has gained increasing attention in recent years.

Qualitative Ascriptions of Autistic Behavior by Non-Autistic College Students.

In studies that assess perceptions of autistic people by non-autistic people, researchers often ask participants to review vignettes depicting fictional autistic characters. However, few studies have investigated whether non-autistic peers accurately identify these hypothetical individuals as being on the autism spectrum. Accurately ascribing autism as a cause of depicted behaviors likely influences perceptions about autistic peers.

Topics and timing of sexuality and relationship education for autistic and non-autistic adults in the United States.

Introduction: Sexuality and relationship education is a learning area that historically has been overlooked, especially for autistic individuals. To inform future programming, we are in need of evidence-based reasoning to guide program design, such as what to cover and when. In particular, the social aspects of sexuality and relationship education, which are less commonly addressed, need further scrutiny.

Sentence Repetition Performance Differences in Bilingual and Monolingual Children.

Purpose: This study examined language group differences in English syntactic knowledge based on performance on a sentence repetition task.

Method: Fourth and sixth grade students who were monolinguals ( = 30), early bilinguals (i.e.

Early activation of cross-language meaning from phonology during sentence processing.

The current study investigated whether shared phonology across languages activates cross-language meaning when reading in context. Eighty-five bilinguals read English sentences while their eye movements were tracked. Critical sentences contained English members of English-French interlingual homophone pairs (e.