Development of the Supported Employment, Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement, and Social Skills program for adults on the autism spectrum: Results of initial study / Mary BAKER-ERICZEN in Autism, 22-1 (January 2018)  

Public ISBD [article]  inAutism > 22-1 (January 2018) . - p.6-19 Titre : Development of the Supported Employment, Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement, and Social Skills program for adults on the autism spectrum: Results of initial study Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Mary BAKER-ERICZEN, Auteur ; Meghan A FITCH, Auteur ; Mikaela KINNEAR, Auteur ; Melissa M JENKINS, Auteur ; Elizabeth W TWAMLEY, Auteur ; Linda SMITH, Auteur ; Gabriel MONTANO, Auteur ; Joshua FEDER, Auteur ; Pamela J CROOKE, Auteur ; Michelle G WINNER, Auteur ; Juan LEON, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.6-19 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : adults with autism,executive functioning,intervention,social cognition,vocational training Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : The population of adults on the autism spectrum continues to increase, and vocational outcomes are particularly poor. Longitudinal studies of adults with autism spectrum and without intellectual disability have shown consistent and persistent deficits across cognitive, social, and vocational domains, indicating a need for effective treatments of functional disabilities as each impact employment. This initial pilot study is an open trial investigation of the feasibility, acceptability, and initial estimates of outcomes for the newly developed Supported Employment, Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement, and Social Skills intervention, a manualized “soft skills” curriculum, to enhance both cognitive and social development in adults with autism spectrum. A total of eight adults with autism spectrum, without intellectual disability (78% males), participated in the study. Results support the original hypothesis that adults with autism spectrum can improve both cognitive (i.e. executive functioning) and social cognitive (i.e. social thinking and social communication) abilities. Further Supported Employment, Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement, and Social Skills was found to be feasible, acceptable, and highly satisfactory for participants and parents. Employment rates more than doubled post-intervention, with an increase from 22% to 56% of participants employed. Conclusion is that Supported Employment, Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement, and Social Skills has promise as an intervention that can be easily embedded into exiting supported employment vocational training programs to improve cognitive, social, and vocational outcomes. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361317724294 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=334 [article] Development of the Supported Employment, Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement, and Social Skills program for adults on the autism spectrum: Results of initial study [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Mary BAKER-ERICZEN, Auteur ; Meghan A FITCH, Auteur ; Mikaela KINNEAR, Auteur ; Melissa M JENKINS, Auteur ; Elizabeth W TWAMLEY, Auteur ; Linda SMITH, Auteur ; Gabriel MONTANO, Auteur ; Joshua FEDER, Auteur ; Pamela J CROOKE, Auteur ; Michelle G WINNER, Auteur ; Juan LEON, Auteur . - p.6-19. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Autism > 22-1 (January 2018) . - p.6-19 Mots-clés : adults with autism,executive functioning,intervention,social cognition,vocational training Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : The population of adults on the autism spectrum continues to increase, and vocational outcomes are particularly poor. Longitudinal studies of adults with autism spectrum and without intellectual disability have shown consistent and persistent deficits across cognitive, social, and vocational domains, indicating a need for effective treatments of functional disabilities as each impact employment. This initial pilot study is an open trial investigation of the feasibility, acceptability, and initial estimates of outcomes for the newly developed Supported Employment, Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement, and Social Skills intervention, a manualized “soft skills” curriculum, to enhance both cognitive and social development in adults with autism spectrum. A total of eight adults with autism spectrum, without intellectual disability (78% males), participated in the study. Results support the original hypothesis that adults with autism spectrum can improve both cognitive (i.e. executive functioning) and social cognitive (i.e. social thinking and social communication) abilities. Further Supported Employment, Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement, and Social Skills was found to be feasible, acceptable, and highly satisfactory for participants and parents. Employment rates more than doubled post-intervention, with an increase from 22% to 56% of participants employed. Conclusion is that Supported Employment, Comprehensive Cognitive Enhancement, and Social Skills has promise as an intervention that can be easily embedded into exiting supported employment vocational training programs to improve cognitive, social, and vocational outcomes. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361317724294 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=334

Greater functional connectivity between sensory networks is related to symptom severity in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder / Bosi CHEN in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62-2 (February 2021)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 62-2 (February 2021) . - p.160-170 Titre : Greater functional connectivity between sensory networks is related to symptom severity in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Bosi CHEN, Auteur ; Annika LINKE, Auteur ; Lindsay OLSON, Auteur ; Cynthia IBARRA, Auteur ; Sarah REYNOLDS, Auteur ; Ralph-Axel MULLER, Auteur ; Mikaela KINNEAR, Auteur ; Inna FISHMAN, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : p.160-170 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Brain networks  autism spectrum disorders  early childhood  functional connectivity  neuroimaging Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) emerge in the first years of life. Yet, little is known about the organization and development of functional brain networks in ASD proximally to the symptom onset. Further, the relationship between brain network connectivity and emerging ASD symptoms and overall functioning in early childhood is not well understood. METHODS: Resting-state fMRI data were acquired during natural sleep from 24 young children with ASD and 23 typically developing (TD) children, aged 17-45 months. Intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC) within and between resting-state functional networks was derived with independent component analysis (ICA). RESULTS: Increased iFC between visual and sensorimotor networks was found in young children with ASD compared to TD participants. Within the ASD group, the degree of overconnectivity between visual and sensorimotor networks was associated with greater autism symptoms. Age-related weakening of the visual-auditory between-network connectivity was observed in the ASD but not the TD group. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, these results provide evidence for disrupted functional network maturation and differentiation, particularly involving visual and sensorimotor networks, during the first years of life in ASD. The observed pattern of greater visual-sensorimotor between-network connectivity associated with poorer clinical outcomes suggests that disruptions in multisensory brain circuitry may play a critical role for early development of behavioral skills and autism symptomatology in young children with ASD. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13268 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=440 [article] Greater functional connectivity between sensory networks is related to symptom severity in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Bosi CHEN, Auteur ; Annika LINKE, Auteur ; Lindsay OLSON, Auteur ; Cynthia IBARRA, Auteur ; Sarah REYNOLDS, Auteur ; Ralph-Axel MULLER, Auteur ; Mikaela KINNEAR, Auteur ; Inna FISHMAN, Auteur . - 2021 . - p.160-170. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 62-2 (February 2021) . - p.160-170 Mots-clés : Brain networks  autism spectrum disorders  early childhood  functional connectivity  neuroimaging Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) emerge in the first years of life. Yet, little is known about the organization and development of functional brain networks in ASD proximally to the symptom onset. Further, the relationship between brain network connectivity and emerging ASD symptoms and overall functioning in early childhood is not well understood. METHODS: Resting-state fMRI data were acquired during natural sleep from 24 young children with ASD and 23 typically developing (TD) children, aged 17-45 months. Intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC) within and between resting-state functional networks was derived with independent component analysis (ICA). RESULTS: Increased iFC between visual and sensorimotor networks was found in young children with ASD compared to TD participants. Within the ASD group, the degree of overconnectivity between visual and sensorimotor networks was associated with greater autism symptoms. Age-related weakening of the visual-auditory between-network connectivity was observed in the ASD but not the TD group. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, these results provide evidence for disrupted functional network maturation and differentiation, particularly involving visual and sensorimotor networks, during the first years of life in ASD. The observed pattern of greater visual-sensorimotor between-network connectivity associated with poorer clinical outcomes suggests that disruptions in multisensory brain circuitry may play a critical role for early development of behavioral skills and autism symptomatology in young children with ASD. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13268 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=440

Neural correlates of verbal and nonverbal semantic integration in children with autism spectrum disorders / Joseph P. MCCLEERY in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51-3 (March 2010)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 51-3 (March 2010) . - p.277-286 Titre : Neural correlates of verbal and nonverbal semantic integration in children with autism spectrum disorders Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Joseph P. MCCLEERY, Auteur ; Laura SCHREIBMAN, Auteur ; Rita CEPONIENE, Auteur ; Karen M. BURNER, Auteur ; Jeanne TOWNSEND, Auteur ; Mikaela KINNEAR, Auteur Année de publication : 2010 Article en page(s) : p.277-286 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Event-related-potentials N400 words environmental-sounds Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background: Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by deficits in social-emotional, social-communicative, and language skills. Behavioral and neuroimaging studies have found that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) evidence abnormalities in semantic processing, with particular difficulties in verbal comprehension. However, it is not known whether these semantic deficits are confined to the verbal domain or represent a more general problem with semantic processing. The focus of the current study was to investigate verbal and meaningful nonverbal semantic processing in high-functioning children with autism (mean age = 5.8 years) using event-related potentials (ERPs). Method: ERPs were recorded while children attended to semantically matching and mismatching picture–word and picture–environmental sound pairs. Results: ERPs of typically developing children exhibited evidence of semantic incongruency detection in both the word and environmental sound conditions, as indexed by elicitation of an N400 effect. In contrast, children with ASD showed an N400 effect in the environmental sound condition but not in the word condition. Conclusions: These results provide evidence for a deficiency in the automatic activation of semantic representations in children with ASD, and suggest that this deficit is somewhat more selective to, or more severe in, the verbal than the nonverbal domain. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02157.x Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=988 [article] Neural correlates of verbal and nonverbal semantic integration in children with autism spectrum disorders [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Joseph P. MCCLEERY, Auteur ; Laura SCHREIBMAN, Auteur ; Rita CEPONIENE, Auteur ; Karen M. BURNER, Auteur ; Jeanne TOWNSEND, Auteur ; Mikaela KINNEAR, Auteur . - 2010 . - p.277-286. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 51-3 (March 2010) . - p.277-286 Mots-clés : Event-related-potentials N400 words environmental-sounds Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background: Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by deficits in social-emotional, social-communicative, and language skills. Behavioral and neuroimaging studies have found that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) evidence abnormalities in semantic processing, with particular difficulties in verbal comprehension. However, it is not known whether these semantic deficits are confined to the verbal domain or represent a more general problem with semantic processing. The focus of the current study was to investigate verbal and meaningful nonverbal semantic processing in high-functioning children with autism (mean age = 5.8 years) using event-related potentials (ERPs). Method: ERPs were recorded while children attended to semantically matching and mismatching picture–word and picture–environmental sound pairs. Results: ERPs of typically developing children exhibited evidence of semantic incongruency detection in both the word and environmental sound conditions, as indexed by elicitation of an N400 effect. In contrast, children with ASD showed an N400 effect in the environmental sound condition but not in the word condition. Conclusions: These results provide evidence for a deficiency in the automatic activation of semantic representations in children with ASD, and suggest that this deficit is somewhat more selective to, or more severe in, the verbal than the nonverbal domain. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02157.x Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=988

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