Developmental variability in autism across 17 000 autistic individuals and 4000 siblings without an autism diagnosis: comparisons by cohort, intellectual disability …

SS Kuo, C van der Merwe, JM Fu, CE Carey… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Presence of developmental delays in autism is well established, yet few studies
have characterized variability in developmental milestone attainment in this population …

Six developmental trajectories characterize children with autism

C Fountain, AS Winter, PS Bearman - Pediatrics, 2012 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to describe the typical longitudinal developmental
trajectories of social and communication functioning in children with autism and to determine …

Autism: One or many spectrums?

A Ure, V Rose, C Bernie… - Journal of paediatrics and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Our conceptualisation of autism spectrum disorder has changed over time, with recent
classifications reflecting a heterogeneous clinical presentation now regularly encountered in …

Sparking new insight into autism across the lifespan

KK Sudnawa, WK Chung - American Journal on Intellectual …, 2024 - meridian.allenpress.com
Autism is heterogeneous at many levels, including clinical symptoms and etiology. A key
strategy in studying heterogeneous conditions is having large enough sample sizes to …

Developmental trajectories of infants with multiplex family risk for autism: A baby siblings research consortium study

NM McDonald, D Senturk, A Scheffler, JA Brian… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder associated
with different genetic etiologies. Prospective examination of familial-risk infants informs …

Heterogeneity of autism symptoms in community‐referred infants and toddlers at elevated or low familial likelihood of autism

TL Cohenour, A Gulsrud, C Kasari - Autism Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence suggests autistic individuals at elevated familial likelihood of autism spectrum
disorder (by virtue of having an autistic sibling) have stronger cognitive abilities on average …

Accelerating progress in autism through developmental research

JJ Wolff, J Piven - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2014 - nature.com
Autism is arguably the quintessential neurodevelopmental disorder. However, despite an
explosion of research over the past decade, we know relatively little about the development …

Examining the phenotypic heterogeneity of early autism spectrum disorder: subtypes and short‐term outcomes

SH Kim, S Macari, J Koller… - Journal of Child …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Phenotypic heterogeneity among toddlers presenting with ASD symptoms
complicates diagnostic considerations and limits our ability to predict long‐term outcomes …

Trajectories in symptoms of autism and cognitive ability in autism from childhood to adult life: findings from a longitudinal epidemiological cohort

E Simonoff, R Kent, D Stringer, C Lord… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective For the first time, we use a longitudinal population-based autism cohort to chart the
trajectories of cognition and autism symptoms from childhood to early adulthood and identify …

[PDF][PDF] Heterogeneity and homogeneity across the autism spectrum: The role of development

W Jones, A Klin - Journal of the American Academy of Child & …, 2009 - medicine.yale.edu
Autism is a lifelong, highly prevalent, and strongly genetic disorder defined by impairments
in social and communicative function and by pronounced behavioral rigidities. 1 Despite …