Autism

Article	Citations
Age at autism spectrum disorder diagnosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis from 2012 to 2019	233
Core experiences of parents of children with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown	130
Research priorities of the autism community: A systematic review of key stakeholder perspectives	119
Preferences for identity-first versus person-first language in a US sample of autism stakeholders	109
Effects of autism acceptance training on explicit and implicit biases toward autism	90
Patterns in reporting and participant inclusion related to race and ethnicity in autism intervention literature: Data from a large-scale systematic review of evidence-based practices	88
Feeding and eating problems in children and adolescents with autism: A scoping review	84
How do core autism traits and associated symptoms relate to quality of life? Findings from the Longitudinal European Autism Project	70
‘Autistic person’ or ‘person with autism’? Person-first language preference in Dutch adults with autism and parents	70
Defining autistic burnout through experts by lived experience: Grounded Delphi method investigating #AutisticBurnout	69
The ‘double empathy problem’: Ten years on	68
COVID-19, social isolation and the mental health of autistic people and their families: A qualitative study	61
‘Anything but the phone!’: Communication mode preferences in the autism community	61
Prevalence of epilepsy in autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	59
Early diagnosis of autism in the community is associated with marked improvement in social symptoms within 1–2 years	59
Loneliness in autistic adults: A systematic review	51
Changing the story: How diagnosticians can support a neurodiversity perspective from the start	50
Exploring an e-learning community’s response to the language and terminology use in autism from two massive open online courses on autism education and technology use	49
Adverse event reporting in intervention research for young autistic children	48
If you want to develop an effective autism training, ask autistic students to help you	47
The role of loneliness as a mediator between autism features and mental health among autistic young adults	46
Participatory autism research: Early career and established researchers’ views and experiences	46
‘It’s not that they don’t want to access the support . . . it’s the impact of the autism’: The experience of eating disorder services from the perspective of autistic women, parents and healthc	46
Oxytocin levels tend to be lower in autistic children: A meta-analysis of 31 studies	45
Camouflaging in autism spectrum disorder: Examining the roles of sex, gender identity, and diagnostic timing	45

Virtual interview training for autistic transition age youth: A randomized controlled feasibility and effectiveness trial	44
Social identities and mental well-being in autistic adults	44
Self-reported camouflaging behaviours used by autistic adults during everyday social interactions	42
Autistic experiences of applied behavior analysis	40
Greater gender diversity among autistic children by self-report and parent-report	40
Associations between social camouflaging and internalizing symptoms in autistic and non-autistic adolescents	39
A blind spot in mental healthcare? Psychotherapists lack education and expertise for the support of adults on the autism spectrum	38
Is autism stigma higher in South Korea than the United States? Examining cultural tightness, intergroup bias, and concerns about heredity as contributors to heightened autism stigma	36
The lived experience of gender dysphoria in autistic adults: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	36
Studies of autistic traits in the general population are not studies of autism	36
Special education for students with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic: “Each day brings new challenges”	35
“Camouflaging” by adolescent autistic girls who attend both mainstream and specialist resource classes: Perspectives of girls, their mothers and their educators	35
Ameliorating the disadvantage for autistic job seekers: An initial evaluation of adapted employment interview questions	34
Intense connection and love: The experiences of autistic mothers	34
‘A way to be me’: Autobiographical reflections of autistic adults diagnosed in mid-to-late adulthood	33
Neuronal and glial cell number is altered in a cortical layer-specific manner in autism	33
Peer preferences and characteristics of same-group and cross-group social interactions among autistic and non-autistic adolescents	32
Benefits and harms of interventions to improve anxiety, depression, and other mental health outcomes for autistic people: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	32
Ten weeks in: COVID-19-related distress in adults with autism spectrum disorder	32
Explicit and implicit self-esteem in youth with autism spectrum disorders	32
Camouflaging in an everyday social context: An interpersonal recall study	31
Anxiety and intellectual functioning in autistic children: A systematic review and meta-analysis	31
It’s time to close the research to practice gap in autism: The need for implementation science	31
The gap between IQ and adaptive functioning in autism spectrum disorder: Disentangling diagnostic and sex differences	30
Early life environmental factors associated with autism spectrum disorder symptoms in children at age 2 years: A birth cohort study	30
Autism-specific parenting self-efficacy: An examination of the role of parent-reported intervention involvement, satisfaction with intervention-related training, and caregiver burden	29
Autism in the Western Cape province of South Africa: Rates, socio-demographics, disability and educational characteristics in one million school children	29
Recognition of affective prosody in autism spectrum conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis	28
Emotional self-awareness in autism: A meta-analysis of group differences and developmental effects	28
When autism researchers disregard harms: A commentary	28
“It was surprisingly equivalent to the appointment I had in person”: Advantages and disadvantages of synchronous telehealth for delivering primary care for autistic adults	28
Does learning you are autistic at a younger age lead to better adult outcomes? A participatory exploration of the perspectives of autistic university students	27
Autism spectrum disorder prevalence and associated sociodemographic factors in the school population: EPINED study	27
Meaningful research for autistic people? Ask autistics!	27
Autism Voices: A novel method to access first-person perspective of autistic youth	27
‘I felt like I deserved it because I was autistic’: Understanding the impact of interpersonal victimisation in the lives of autistic people	27
Letter to the Editor: A possible threat to data integrity for online qualitative autism research	26
How to improve healthcare for autistic people: A qualitative study of the views of autistic people and clinicians	26
Intermittent theta burst stimulation over the posterior superior temporal sulcus for children with autism spectrum disorder: A 4-week randomized blinded controlled trial followed by another 4-week ope	26
The effects of JASPER intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review	26
Autistic traits are related to worse performance in a volatile reward learning task despite adaptive learning rates	26
Who gets coached? A qualitative inquiry into community clinicians’ decisions to use caregiver coaching	25
Understanding language preference: Autism knowledge, experience of stigma and autism identity	25
Autism presentation in female and Black populations: Examining the roles of identity, theory, and systemic inequalities	25
“[I] don’t wanna just be like a cog in the machine”: Narratives of autism and skilled employment	25
Six ideas about how to address the autism mental health crisis	24
Exploring the impact of adolescent cognitive inflexibility on emotional and behavioural problems experienced by autistic adults	24
A longitudinal study of the mental health of autistic children and adolescents and their parents during COVID-19: Part 1, quantitative findings	24
Autistic parents’ views and experiences of talking about autism with their autistic children	24
The comorbidity between autism spectrum disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder is mediated by brooding rumination	23

Objective and subjective psychosocial outcomes in adults with autism spectrum disorder: A 6-year longitudinal study	23
The effectiveness of physical activity interventions on communication and social functioning in autistic children and adolescents: A meta-analysis of controlled trials	23
COVID-19 risk: Adult Medicaid beneficiaries with autism, intellectual disability, and mental health conditions	22
Preemptive interventions for infants and toddlers with a high likelihood for autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis	22
A randomized controlled trial into the effects of probiotics on electroencephalography in preschoolers with autism	22
Factors related to parental therapeutic self-efficacy in a parent-mediated intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder: A mixed methods study	22
To reduce the average age of autism diagnosis, screen preschoolers in primary care	22
Exploring potential sources of childhood trauma: A qualitative study with autistic adults and caregivers	22
The relationship between sensory reactivity, intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety subtypes in preschool-age autistic children	22
‘Someone like-minded in a big place’: Autistic young adults’ attitudes towards autistic peer support in mainstream education	21
The impact of early stages of COVID-19 on the mental health of autistic adults in the United Kingdom: A longitudinal mixed-methods study	21
The impact of autism-related training programs on physician knowledge, self-efficacy, and practice behavior: A systematic review	21
Access to employment: A comparison of autistic, neurodivergent and neurotypical adults’ experiences of hiring processes in the United Kingdom	21
A systematic review of school-based social skills interventions and observed social outcomes for students with autism spectrum disorder in inclusive settings	21
‘You don’t look autistic’: A qualitative exploration of women’s experiences of being the ‘autistic other’	21
Cognitive profiles of children with autism spectrum disorder with parent-reported extraordinary talents and personal strengths	21
Implementation of school-based services for students with autism: Barriers and facilitators across urban and rural districts and phases of implementation	21
The earlier the better: An RCT of treatment timing effects for toddlers on the autism spectrum	21
The sensory experiences of autistic people: A metasynthesis	21
‘It’s being a part of a grand tradition, a grand counter-culture which involves communities’: A qualitative investigation of autistic community connectedness	21
Reduced differentiation of emotion-associated bodily sensations in autism	21
Short report: Patterns of US federal autism research funding during 2017–2019	21
Effectiveness of a parent-mediated intervention for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from a large community implementation	21
Evaluating the effects of a yoga-based program integrated with third-wave cognitive behavioral therapy components on self-regulation in children on the autism spectrum: A pilot randomized controlled t	20
The neurodiversity concept was developed collectively: An overdue correction on the origins of neurodiversity theory	20
Menstruation and menopause in autistic adults: Periods of importance?	20
Evidence of increasing recorded diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in Wales, UK: An e-cohort study	20
The impact of a positive autism identity and autistic community solidarity on social anxiety and mental health in autistic young people	20
A systematic review of person-centred adjustments to facilitate magnetic resonance imaging for autistic patients without the use of sedation or anaesthesia	20
Learning from the experts: Evaluating a participatory autism and universal design training for university educators	19
Differential predictors of well-being versus mental health among parents of pre-schoolers with autism	19
Physical activity and screen time among youth with autism: A longitudinal analysis from 9 to 18 years	19
County-level variation in geographic access to Board Certified Behavior Analysts among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the United States	19
Intensive behavioural interventions based on applied behaviour analysis for young children with autism: An international collaborative individual participant data meta-analysis	19
Social support and links to quality of life among middle-aged and older autistic adults	19
Self-reported community participation experiences and preferences of autistic adults	19
Effects of exercise on sleep, melatonin level, and behavioral functioning in children with autism	19
Comparing the impact of the first and second wave of COVID-19 lockdown on Slovak families with typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder	19
A qualitative exploration of autistic mothers’ experiences II: Childbirth and postnatal experiences	19
Functional gender differences in autism: An international, multidisciplinary expert survey using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health model	19
Short report on research trends during the COVID-19 pandemic and use of telehealth interventions and remote brain research in children with autism spectrum disorder	19
Adding the missing voice: How self-report of autistic youth self-report on an executive functioning rating scale compares to parent report and that of youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disord	18
A method for defining the CORE of a psychosocial intervention to guide adaptation in practice: Reciprocal imitation teaching as a case example	18
Considerations of the built environment for autistic individuals: A review of the literature	18
The Toddler Autism Symptom Inventory: Use in diagnostic evaluations of toddlers	18
Diagnostic- and sex-based differences in depression symptoms in autistic and neurotypical early adolescents	18
Keeping up with the evidence base: Survey of behavior professionals about Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions	18
Health characteristics of reproductive-aged autistic women in Ontario: A population-based, cross-sectional study	18
Pragmatic adaptations of telehealth-delivered caregiver coaching for children with autism in the context of COVID-19: Perspectives from the United States and South Africa	18
Face memory and face perception in autism	18
Gastrointestinal concerns in children with autism spectrum disorder: A qualitative study of family experiences	18
The use of Multi-Sensory Environments with autistic children: Exploring the effect of having control of sensory changes	17
Sex differences in predictors and outcomes of camouflaging: Comparing diagnosed autistic, high autistic trait and low autistic trait young adults	17
Acceptability and feasibility of the World Health Organization’s Caregiver Skills Training implemented in the Italian National Health System	17
Psychological strengths and well-being: Strengths use predicts quality of life, well-being and mental health in autism	17
Positive and differential diagnosis of autism in verbal women of typical intelligence: A Delphi study	17
Mental health Project ECHO Autism: Increasing access to community mental health services for autistic individuals	17
Associative learning under uncertainty in adults with autism: Intact learning of the cue-outcome contingency, but slower updating of priors	17
Investigating the structure of trait rumination in autistic adults: A network analysis	17
Randomized pilot study of a special education advocacy program for Latinx/minority parents of children with autism spectrum disorder	17
Training the social brain: Clinical and neural effects of an 8-week real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback Phase IIa Clinical Trial in Autism	17
Autonomic dysfunction in autism: The roles of anxiety, depression, and stress	17
In their own words: The impact of subtle language and communication difficulties as described by autistic girls and boys without intellectual disability	17
A longitudinal study of the mental health of autistic children and adolescents and their parents during COVID-19: Part 2, qualitative findings	17
Autistic women’s views and experiences of infant feeding: A systematic review of qualitative evidence	17
Cutting our own keys: New possibilities of neurodivergent storying in research	17
Potential role for immune-related genes in autism spectrum disorders: Evidence from genome-wide association meta-analysis of autistic traits	17
Medical symptoms and conditions in autistic women	16
Non-pharmacological interventions for autistic children: An umbrella review	16
Leisure, employment, community participation and quality of life in caregivers of autistic children: A scoping review	16
Autism voices: Perspectives of the needs, challenges, and hopes for the future of autistic youth	16
The Early Screening for Autism and Communication Disorders: Field-testing an autism-specific screening tool for children 12 to 36 months of age	16
Male autistic youth experiences of belonging in integrated physical education	16
Autism screening and conditional cash transfers in Chile: Using the Quantitative Checklist (Q-CHAT) for early autism detection in a low resource setting	16
Depression in independent young adults on the autism spectrum: Demographic characteristics, service use, and barriers	15
Prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in a large pediatric primary care network	15
Healthcare service use patterns among autistic adults: A systematic review with narrative synthesis	15
Autistic differences in the temporal dynamics of social attention	15
Difference in default mode network subsystems in autism across childhood and adolescence	15
Friendship quality among autistic and non-autistic (pre-) adolescents: Protective or risk factor for mental health?	15

Parenting stress in autism spectrum disorder may account for discrepancies in parent and clinician ratings of child functioning	15
An evaluation of intervention research for transition-age autistic youth	15
Naturalistic evaluation of preschoolers’ spontaneous interactions: The Autism Peer Interaction Observation Scale	15
Barriers to healthcare and a ‘triple empathy problem’ may lead to adverse outcomes for autistic adults: A qualitative study	15
Toward deeper understanding and wide-scale implementation of naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions	15
Pathological demand avoidance in children and adolescents: A systematic review	14
Family navigation to increase evaluation for autism spectrum disorder in toddlers: Screening and Linkage to Services for Autism pragmatic randomized trial	14
A community-engaged approach to examining barriers and facilitators to accessing autism services in Korean immigrant families	14
Social-communicative gestures at baseline predict verbal and nonverbal gains for children with autism receiving the Early Start Denver Model	14
Barriers and facilitators for obtaining support services among underserved families with an autistic child: A systematic qualitative review	14
Toward better characterization of restricted and unusual interests in youth with autism	14
Performance of the Autism Observation Scale for Infants with community-ascertained infants showing early signs of autism	13
The impact of atypical sensory processing on adaptive functioning within and beyond autism: The role of familial factors	13
Autism diagnosis as a social process	13
Anxiety in autistic individuals who speak few or no words: A qualitative study of parental experience and anxiety management	13
Cross-cultural perspectives on the meaning of family quality of life: Comparing Korean immigrant families and Canadian families of children with autism spectrum disorder	13
Thinking, fast and slow on the autism spectrum	13
A systematic review of the experiences of autistic young people enrolled in mainstream second-level (post-primary) schools	13
Prenatal exposure to paternal smoking and likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	13
Satisfaction with informal supports predicts resilience in families of children with autism spectrum disorder	13
Looking through rainbow-rimmed glasses: Taking neurodiversity perspective is related to subjective well-being of autistic adults	13
Autistic mothers’ perinatal well-being and parenting styles	13
Short report: Call to action for autism clinicians in response to anti-Black racism	13
‘The key to this is not so much the technology. It’s the individual who is using the technology’: Perspectives on telehealth delivery for autistic adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Food insecurity in the households of children with autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disabilities in the United States: Analysis of the National Survey of Children’s Health Data 2016–2018	13
Altered DNA methylation in a severe subtype of idiopathic autism: Evidence for sex differences in affected metabolic pathways	13
End-user perspectives on the development of an online intervention for parents of children on the autism spectrum	13
Māori and autism: A scoping review	13
Relationships between alexithymia, interoception, and emotional empathy in autism spectrum disorder	13
Cognitive, social, and behavioral manifestations of the co-occurrence of autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review	13
Do animated triangles reveal a marked difficulty among autistic people with reading minds?	13
Are there anthropometric and body composition differences between children with autism spectrum disorder and children with typical development? Analysis by age and spectrum severity in a school popula	13
Unmet health care needs and health care quality in youth with autism spectrum disorder with and without intellectual disability	13
Measuring parent strategy use in early intervention: Reliability and validity of the Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention Fidelity Rating Scale across strategy types	13
The effect of early autism intervention on parental sense of efficacy in a randomized trial depends on the initial level of parent stress	12
Publishing standards for promoting excellence in autism research	12
Using EMDR with autistic individuals: A Delphi survey with EMDR therapists	12
Autistic adults’ subjective experiences of hoarding and self-injurious behaviors	12
Development and implementation of health care transition resources for youth with autism spectrum disorders within a primary care medical home	12
A co-twin-control study of altered sensory processing in autism	12
A preliminary randomized, controlled trial of executive function training for children with autism spectrum disorder	12
Mental health correlates and potential childhood predictors for the wish to be of the opposite sex in young autistic adults	12
Autism spectrum disorder: An examination of sex differences in neuropsychological and self-report measures of executive and non-executive cognitive function	12
Demographic and psychological predictors of alcohol use and misuse in autistic adults	12
A systematic review examining caregivers’ of color experiences with the diagnostic process of autism spectrum disorder	12
Parental experience of parent-mediated intervention for children with ASD: A systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis	11
Healthcare clinician perspectives on the intersection of autism and gender dysphoria	11
Prevalence of co-occurring autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder among children in the United States	11
“Physical activity is beneficial to anyone, including those with ASD”: Antecedents of nurses recommending physical activity for people with autism spectrum disorder	11
Sequence organization of autistic children’s play with caregivers: Rethinking follow-in directives	11
Self-reported parkinsonism features in older autistic adults: A descriptive study	11
Language and communication skills in multilingual children on the autism spectrum: A systematic review	11
A more holistic approach to autism using the International Classification of Functioning: The why, what, and how of functioning	11
Sociocultural context and autistics’ quality of life: A comparison between Québec and France	11
Atypicalities in the developmental trajectory of cortico-striatal functional connectivity in autism spectrum disorder	11
Community perspectives on the appropriateness and importance of support goals for young autistic children	11
Embedding school cultures and climates that promote evidence-based practice implementation for youth with autism: A qualitative study	11
Differentiation of autism spectrum disorder and mood or anxiety disorder	11
Gender differences between adolescents with autism in emergency psychiatry	11
Goal attainment scaling—community-based: A method to incorporate personalized outcomes into intervention research with youth and adults on the autism spectrum	11
Preschool teachers’ selection of social communication interventions for children with autism: An application of the theory of planned behavior	11
Parent stress and coping trajectories in Hispanic and non-Hispanic families of children at risk of autism spectrum disorder	11
Leveraging telehealth to evaluate infants with prodromal autism spectrum disorder characteristics using the telehealth evaluation of development for infants	11
Intrinsic hippocampal functional connectivity underlying rigid memory in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A case–control study	11
Calm with horses? A systematic review of animal-assisted interventions for improving social functioning in children with autism	11
Iterative redesign of a caregiver-mediated intervention for use in educational settings	11
Provider perspectives and reach of an evidence-based intervention in community services for toddlers	10
A survey of autistic adults, relatives and clinical teams in the United Kingdom: And Delphi process consensus statements on optimal autism diagnostic assessment for adults	10
Comparison of mental health, well-being and parenting sense of competency among Australian and South-East Asian parents of autistic children accessing early intervention in Australia	10
Characterizing the early vocabulary profiles of preverbal and minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder	10
The indirect effect of self-compassion in the association between autistic traits and anxiety/depression: A cross-sectional study in autistic and non-autistic adults	10
A qualitative study of autism services and supports in Singapore: Perspectives of service providers, autistic adults and caregivers	10
Alexithymia and intolerance of uncertainty predict somatic symptoms in autistic and non-autistic adults	10
Overcoming hurdles to intervention studies with autistic children with profound communication difficulties and their families	10
The influence of child-based factors and parental inputs on expressive language abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder	10
Behavior analytic interventions for children with autism: Policy and practice in the United Kingdom and China	10
Autistics working in academia: What are the barriers and facilitators?	10
A mixed-methods examination of the gap between intelligence and adaptive functioning in autistic young adults without intellectual disability	10
Autistic women’s experiences of self-compassion after receiving their diagnosis in adulthood	10
A culturally grounded autism parent training program with Black parents	10
Exposure to family stressful life events in autistic children: Longitudinal associations with mental health and the moderating role of cognitive flexibility	10
Correlates of adaptive skills in children with autism spectrum disorder	10
‘Maybe we just seem like easy targets’: A qualitative analysis of autistic adults’ experiences of interpersonal violence	10
Content validation of common measures of functioning for young children against the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and Code and Core Sets relevant to neurodevelopme	10
The creator did not give me more than I can handle: Exploring coping in parents of Black autistic children	10
Representation of autism in fictional media: A systematic review of media content and its impact on viewer knowledge and understanding of autism	10
Dog training intervention improves adaptive social communication skills in young children with autism spectrum disorder: A controlled crossover study	10
Adults with autism spectrum disorder show atypical patterns of thoughts and feelings during rest	10
Who’s waiting for a school? Rates, socio-demographics, disability and referral profile of children with autism spectrum disorder awaiting school placement in the Western Cape Province of South Africa	10
Exploring coaching and follow-up supports in community-implemented caregiver-mediated JASPER intervention	9
Real-world executive functioning for autistic children in school and home settings	9
Healthy Relationships on the Autism Spectrum (HEARTS): A feasibility test of an online class co-designed and co-taught with autistic people	9
We must improve the low standards underlying “evidence-based practice”	9
Suicidal ideation and intentional self-inflicted injury in autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability: An examination of trends in youth emergency department visits in the United States from	9
Development of stigma-related support for autistic adults: Insights from the autism community	9