Publications by authors named "Rachele Lievore"
Autistic children and adolescents may encounter difficulties at school, especially in mathematics, experiencing a pattern of negative feelings, distress, and concerns, which has been called mathematics anxiety. We asked 110 boys (50 autistic, 60 non-autistic) aged between 8 and 16 years old to report their feelings toward mathematics. Specifically, we asked them to fill in a questionnaire on their levels of mathematics anxiety at school and to report their emotional (valence, arousal) and cognitive (perception of competence, worries) responses before and after completing a mathematical task with time pressure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim was to investigate trait social anxiety and social evaluative stress in autistic children and adolescents and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD). This was done by evaluating behavioral, subjective, and autonomic responses to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). Study 1 included 280 children and adolescents: 60 autistic without intellectual disability (ID), 70 SLD, and 150 non-diagnosed (ND) peers.
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- Researchers looked at whether boys or girls with autism perform better on intelligence tests.
- They found that there are no major differences in overall intelligence between boys and girls with autism, but boys did perform better in some areas.
- The study helps us understand that any differences in skills are specific and similar to what we see in kids without autism.
Youth with different developmental disorders might experience challenges when dealing with facial emotion recognition (FER). By comparing FER and related emotional and cognitive factors across developmental disorders, researchers can gain a better understanding of challenges and strengths associated with each condition. The aim of the present study was to investigate how social anxiety and executive functioning might underlie FER in youth with and without autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and specific learning disorders (SLD).
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- Parents of kids with autism feel more stressed than parents of kids without autism due to how their children handle emotions.
- The COVID-19 pandemic made things even harder for these families by adding more stress and challenges.
- The study found that parents of children with autism were more influenced by their kids' emotional issues, while parents of typically-developing kids were more affected by unexpected problems related to the pandemic.
Nonverbal learning disability (NVLD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in visuospatial processing but spared verbal competencies. Neurocognitive markers may provide confirmatory evidence for characterizing NVLD as a separate neurodevelopmental disorder. Visuospatial performance and high-density electroencephalography (EEG) were measured in 16 NLVD and in 16 typically developing (TD) children.
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- The ability to organize visual and spatial information is connected to skills like coordination and memory.
- A test called the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCFT) helps researchers see how these abilities work in children with autism compared to those developing typically.
- The study found that children with autism showed different strengths and weaknesses in these skills, specifically tending to process information more locally than their typically developing peers.