Exploring Visual Perspective Taking and body awareness in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Introduction: Recent evidence suggests that impairments in social cognition are associated to the cognitive abilities needed to take several viewpoints in perceptual situations and body awareness. The aim of the current study was to investigate Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) and Body awareness performance in a group of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) compared with a group of children with Intellectual Disability (ID) and typically developing (TD) children.

Methods: Our groups were administered an IQ test and a VPT task, and body awareness tests.

A familial inverted duplication/deletion of 2p25.1-25.3 provides new clues on the genesis of inverted duplications.

We studied a family in which the same 10 Mb inverted duplication of 2p25.3-p25.1 segregates in two children and their father, all showing a trisomy phenotype.