Integrated Occupational Therapy Camp for Children with Regulation/Sensory Processing Differences: Preliminary Evaluation.

Integration of occupational therapy into a camp environment may support participation for children with neurodevelopmental differences, but evidence is limited. This study examines the effects of participation of children with regulation/sensory processing differences at one such integrated camp on parent-established functional goals. We used a pre-test/post-test repeated measures cohort design.

Arteriovenous Malformation in a Youth with Atypical Autism Symptoms.

Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) present a challenge to diagnose in children with developmental disability, because of the overlap in behavioral symptoms and neurologic manifestations. They have been very rarely reported in conjunction with autism spectrum disorder. This case involves a 13 year old male with a history of autism spectrum disorder and significant behavioral issues diagnosed with a thalamic AVM following lateralizing neurologic symptoms.

Autism Spectrum Disorder in Fragile X Syndrome: Cooccurring Conditions and Current Treatment.

Background And Objective: Individuals with fragile X syndrome (FXS) are frequently codiagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Most of our current knowledge about ASD in FXS comes from family surveys and small studies. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of the ASD diagnosis in a large clinic-based FXS population to better inform the care of people with FXS.

Imitation performance in toddlers with autism and those with other developmental disorders.

Background: The present study sought to examine the specificity, developmental correlates, nature and pervasiveness of imitation deficits very early in the development of autism.

Methods: Subjects were 24 children with autism (mean age 34 months), 18 children with fragile X syndrome, 20 children with other developmental disorders, and 15 typically-developing children. Tasks included manual, oral-facial, and object oriented imitations, developmental measures, joint attention ability, and motor abilities.

Rich interpretation vs. deflationary accounts in cognitive development: the case of means-end skills in 7-month-old infants.

Seven-month-old infants appear to learn means-end skills, such as pushing a button to retrieve a distant toy (Psychological Review 104 (1997) 686). The present studies tested whether such apparent means-end behaviors are genuine, or simply the repetition of trained behaviors under conditions of greatest arousal, as suggested by a dynamic systems reinterpretation. When infants were trained to repeat behaviors that did not serve as means to retrieving toys (pushing a button to light a set of distant lights), their button-pushing differed significantly from infants for whom button-pushing served as a means for retrieving toys.