Autism

Article	Citations
Age at autism spectrum disorder diagnosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis from 2012 to 2019	180
Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective	158
‘I never realised everybody felt as happy as I do when I am around autistic people’: A thematic analysis of autistic adults’ relationships with autistic and neurotypical friends and family	127
Core experiences of parents of children with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown	107
Listening to the autistic voice: Mental health priorities to guide research and practice in autism from a stakeholder-driven project	93
Looking good but feeling bad: “Camouflaging” behaviors and mental health in women with autistic traits	81
Research priorities of the autism community: A systematic review of key stakeholder perspectives	81
Effects of autism acceptance training on explicit and implicit biases toward autism	73
The relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety in autism: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	69
Cross-sectional and longitudinal predictors of quality of life in autistic individuals from adolescence to adulthood: The role of mental health and sleep quality	68
The hidden inequalities of COVID-19	65
Both sex- and gender-related factors should be considered in autism research and clinical practice	63
Public knowledge and stigma of autism spectrum disorder: Comparing China with the United States	61
Feeding and eating problems in children and adolescents with autism: A scoping review	60
Work, living, and the pursuit of happiness: Vocational and psychosocial outcomes for young adults with autism	60
How do core autism traits and associated symptoms relate to quality of life? Findings from the Longitudinal European Autism Project	58
To address racial disparities in autism research, we must think globally, act locally	56
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An unexplored co-occurrence of conditions	55
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	55
‘I’m not just a guinea pig’: Academic and community perceptions of participatory autism research	55
Increased prevalence of non-communicable physical health conditions among autistic adults	54
Preferences for identity-first versus person-first language in a US sample of autism stakeholders	53
Defining autistic burnout through experts by lived experience: Grounded Delphi method investigating #AutisticBurnout	52
COVID-19, social isolation and the mental health of autistic people and their families: A qualitative study	48
‘Autistic person’ or ‘person with autism’? Person-first language preference in Dutch adults with autism and parents	46

Trajectories of emotional and behavioral problems from childhood to early adult life	46
Early diagnosis of autism in the community is associated with marked improvement in social symptoms within 1–2 years	43
‘Anything but the phone!’: Communication mode preferences in the autism community	42
Socio-emotional determinants of depressive symptoms in adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review	42
Prevalence of epilepsy in autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	42
Changing the story: How diagnosticians can support a neurodiversity perspective from the start	42
Identifying and measuring the common elements of naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions for autism spectrum disorder: Development of the NDBI-Fi	41
Virtual interview training for autistic transition age youth: A randomized controlled feasibility and effectiveness trial	40
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	39
Adverse event reporting in intervention research for young autistic children	39
Loneliness in autistic adults: A systematic review	37
Dropping out and moving on: A qualitative study of autistic people’s experiences of university	36
Participatory autism research: Early career and established researchers’ views and experiences	36
Parent utilization of ImPACT intervention strategies is a mediator of proximal then distal social communication outcomes in younger siblings of children with ASD	34
Oxytocin levels tend to be lower in autistic children: A meta-analysis of 31 studies	34
If you want to develop an effective autism training, ask autistic students to help you	34
The role of loneliness as a mediator between autism features and mental health among autistic young adults	33
Interventions to address health outcomes among autistic adults: A systematic review	32
Challenges, priorities, barriers to care, and stigma in families of people with autism: Similarities and differences among six Latin American countries	32
Social identities and mental well-being in autistic adults	32
Types and correlates of school non-attendance in students with autism spectrum disorders	32
Telehealth cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in children with autism spectrum disorder: A pilot examining feasibility, satisfaction, and preliminary findings	32
Service deserts and service oases: Utilizing geographic information systems to evaluate service availability for individuals with autism spectrum disorder	32
Healthcare service utilization and cost among transition-age youth with autism spectrum disorder and other special healthcare needs	32
The ‘double empathy problem’: Ten years on	31
Facial emotion recognition in autistic adult females correlates with alexithymia, not autism	30
Neurological disorders in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Parent perceptions of participation in a parent-mediated communication-focussed intervention with their young child with autism spectrum disorder	30
Ten weeks in: COVID-19-related distress in adults with autism spectrum disorder	30
Camouflaging in autism spectrum disorder: Examining the roles of sex, gender identity, and diagnostic timing	30
‘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	30
Special education for students with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic: “Each day brings new challenges”	29
Examining the relationship between parent physical activity support behaviour and physical activity among children and youth with autism spectrum disorder	29
Timing of diagnosis, depression and self-harm in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder	29
Explicit and implicit self-esteem in youth with autism spectrum disorders	29
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	28
Studies of autistic traits in the general population are not studies of autism	28
Ameliorating the disadvantage for autistic job seekers: An initial evaluation of adapted employment interview questions	28
‘A way to be me’: Autobiographical reflections of autistic adults diagnosed in mid-to-late adulthood	27
The link between autism spectrum disorder and gut microbiota: A scoping review	27
Systematic review of risk and protective factors associated with substance use and abuse in individuals with autism spectrum disorders	27
Associations between social camouflaging and internalizing symptoms in autistic and non-autistic adolescents	27
Self-guided mindfulness and cognitive behavioural practices reduce anxiety in autistic adults: A pilot 8-month waitlist-controlled trial of widely available online tools	27
“Camouflaging” by adolescent autistic girls who attend both mainstream and specialist resource classes: Perspectives of girls, their mothers and their educators	27
Neuronal and glial cell number is altered in a cortical layer-specific manner in autism	26
Autism in the Western Cape province of South Africa: Rates, socio-demographics, disability and educational characteristics in one million school children	26
Self-reported camouflaging behaviours used by autistic adults during everyday social interactions	26
A systematic review and meta-analysis of parent-mediated intervention for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan	25
Person-oriented ethics for autism research: Creating best practices through engagement with autism and autistic communities	25
Twitter usage about autism spectrum disorder	25

Cross-lagged model of bullying victimization and mental health problems in children with autism in middle to older childhood	25
Gastrointestinal problems are associated with increased repetitive behaviors but not social communication difficulties in young children with autism spectrum disorders	25
Physical activity participation among adolescents with autism spectrum disorder	25
Short report: Evaluating the safety and usability of head-mounted virtual reality compared to monitor-displayed video for children with autism spectrum disorder	25
How is autistic identity in adolescence influenced by parental disclosure decisions and perceptions of autism?	24
Randomized controlled trial of a sibling support group: Mental health outcomes for siblings of children with autism	24
Peer preferences and characteristics of same-group and cross-group social interactions among autistic and non-autistic adolescents	23
Assessing the convergence of self-report and informant measures for adults with autism spectrum disorder	23
Greater gender diversity among autistic children by self-report and parent-report	23
Camouflaging in an everyday social context: An interpersonal recall study	23
Determinants of an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in childhood and adolescence: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study	23
When autism researchers disregard harms: A commentary	23
Intense connection and love: The experiences of autistic mothers	22
The lived experience of gender dysphoria in autistic adults: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	22
Autism Voices: A novel method to access first-person perspective of autistic youth	22
Anxiety and intellectual functioning in autistic children: A systematic review and meta-analysis	22
The gap between IQ and adaptive functioning in autism spectrum disorder: Disentangling diagnostic and sex differences	22
It’s time to close the research to practice gap in autism: The need for implementation science	21
Autistic experiences of applied behavior analysis	21
Autism spectrum disorder prevalence and associated sociodemographic factors in the school population: EPINED study	21
Bilingualism in autism: Language learning profiles and social experiences	21
A blind spot in mental healthcare? Psychotherapists lack education and expertise for the support of adults on the autism spectrum	21
“It was surprisingly equivalent to the appointment I had in person”: Advantages and disadvantages of synchronous telehealth for delivering primary care for autistic adults	21
Early life environmental factors associated with autism spectrum disorder symptoms in children at age 2 years: A birth cohort study	20
Recognition of affective prosody in autism spectrum conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Exploring the impact of adolescent cognitive inflexibility on emotional and behavioural problems experienced by autistic adults	20
Autism-specific parenting self-efficacy: An examination of the role of parent-reported intervention involvement, satisfaction with intervention-related training, and caregiver burden	20
Short report: Patterns of US federal autism research funding during 2017–2019	20
Felt but not seen: Observed restricted repetitive behaviors are associated with self-report—but not parent-report—obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms in youth with autism spectrum disorder	20
Alexithymic and autistic traits: Relevance for comorbid depression and social phobia in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder	20
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	20
The relationship between sensory reactivity, intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety subtypes in preschool-age autistic children	19
Integrating the Early Start Denver Model into Israeli community autism spectrum disorder preschools: Effectiveness and treatment response predictors	19
How to improve healthcare for autistic people: A qualitative study of the views of autistic people and clinicians	19
The role of early social motivation in explaining variability in functional language in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder	19
Autism spectrum disorder/Takiwātanga: An Integrated Data Infrastructure-based approach to autism spectrum disorder research in New Zealand	19
Interviewing autistic adults: Adaptations to support recall in police, employment, and healthcare interviews	19
Intensive behavioural interventions based on applied behaviour analysis for young children with autism: An international collaborative individual participant data meta-analysis	18
The comorbidity between autism spectrum disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder is mediated by brooding rumination	18
Cognitive profiles of children with autism spectrum disorder with parent-reported extraordinary talents and personal strengths	18
The Dutch Sensory Perception Quotient-Short in adults with and without autism	18
Does learning you are autistic at a younger age lead to better adult outcomes? A participatory exploration of the perspectives of autistic university students	18
Who gets coached? A qualitative inquiry into community clinicians’ decisions to use caregiver coaching	18
County-level variation in geographic access to Board Certified Behavior Analysts among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the United States	18
Meaningful research for autistic people? Ask autistics!	18
The earlier the better: An RCT of treatment timing effects for toddlers on the autism spectrum	18
Emotional self-awareness in autism: A meta-analysis of group differences and developmental effects	18
The effects of JASPER intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review	17
Measuring change in facial emotion recognition in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review	17
Increased emotional eating behaviors in children with autism: Sex differences and links with dietary variety	17
Self-initiations in young children with autism during Pivotal Response Treatment with and without robot assistance	17
A systematic review of school-based social skills interventions and observed social outcomes for students with autism spectrum disorder in inclusive settings	17
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	17
Comparing the writing skills of autistic and nonautistic university students: A collaboration with autistic university students	17
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	17
Evidence of increasing recorded diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in Wales, UK: An e-cohort study	17
To reduce the average age of autism diagnosis, screen preschoolers in primary care	17
Acceptability and feasibility of the World Health Organization’s Caregiver Skills Training implemented in the Italian National Health System	16
COVID-19 risk: Adult Medicaid beneficiaries with autism, intellectual disability, and mental health conditions	16
The impact of early stages of COVID-19 on the mental health of autistic adults in the United Kingdom: A longitudinal mixed-methods study	16
Characteristics of toddlers with early versus later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder	16
Development and psychometric testing of the AASPIRE Adult Autism Healthcare Provider Self-Efficacy Scale	16
A method for defining the CORE of a psychosocial intervention to guide adaptation in practice: Reciprocal imitation teaching as a case example	16
Speeded reasoning moderates the inverse relationship between autistic traits and emotion recognition	16
Quantity and quality of empathic responding by autistic and non-autistic adolescent girls and boys	16
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	16
The effectiveness of physical activity interventions on communication and social functioning in autistic children and adolescents: A meta-analysis of controlled trials	16
Factors related to parental therapeutic self-efficacy in a parent-mediated intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder: A mixed methods study	16
Autism presentation in female and Black populations: Examining the roles of identity, theory, and systemic inequalities	16
Considering efficacy and effectiveness trials of cognitive behavioral therapy among youth with autism: A systematic review	16
Autistic traits are related to worse performance in a volatile reward learning task despite adaptive learning rates	16
‘You don’t look autistic’: A qualitative exploration of women’s experiences of being the ‘autistic other’	15
Self-reported community participation experiences and preferences of autistic adults	15
A longitudinal study of the mental health of autistic children and adolescents and their parents during COVID-19: Part 1, quantitative findings	15
The Toddler Autism Symptom Inventory: Use in diagnostic evaluations of toddlers	15
Autistic parents’ views and experiences of talking about autism with their autistic children	15
Medical symptoms and conditions in autistic women	15
Improving autism and developmental screening and referral in US primary care practices serving Latinos	15
Parent-identified strengths of autistic youth	15
Effectiveness of a parent-mediated intervention for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from a large community implementation	15

Autonomic dysfunction in autism: The roles of anxiety, depression, and stress	15
‘I felt like I deserved it because I was autistic’: Understanding the impact of interpersonal victimisation in the lives of autistic people	15
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	15
Keeping up with the evidence base: Survey of behavior professionals about Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions	15
Functional gender differences in autism: An international, multidisciplinary expert survey using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health model	15
Understanding language preference: Autism knowledge, experience of stigma and autism identity	15
A grounded theory of adoption and maintenance of physical activity among autistic adults	15
Reduced differentiation of emotion-associated bodily sensations in autism	14
Exploring potential sources of childhood trauma: A qualitative study with autistic adults and caregivers	14
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	14
Positive and differential diagnosis of autism in verbal women of typical intelligence: A Delphi study	14
Physical activity and screen time among youth with autism: A longitudinal analysis from 9 to 18 years	14
A systematic review of person-centred adjustments to facilitate magnetic resonance imaging for autistic patients without the use of sedation or anaesthesia	14
Sex differences in predictors and outcomes of camouflaging: Comparing diagnosed autistic, high autistic trait and low autistic trait young adults	14
Naturalistic evaluation of preschoolers’ spontaneous interactions: The Autism Peer Interaction Observation Scale	14
Depression in independent young adults on the autism spectrum: Demographic characteristics, service use, and barriers	14
Six ideas about how to address the autism mental health crisis	14
Implementation of school-based services for students with autism: Barriers and facilitators across urban and rural districts and phases of implementation	14
The Early Screening for Autism and Communication Disorders: Field-testing an autism-specific screening tool for children 12 to 36 months of age	14
Parenting stress in autism spectrum disorder may account for discrepancies in parent and clinician ratings of child functioning	14
Making sense of the perceptual capacities in autistic and non-autistic adults	14
Observed emotional reactivity in response to frustration tasks in psychiatrically hospitalized youth with autism spectrum disorder	14
Menstruation and menopause in autistic adults: Periods of importance?	14
Peer engagement in toddlers with autism: Community implementation of dyadic and individual Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation intervention	14
Health characteristics of reproductive-aged autistic women in Ontario: A population-based, cross-sectional study	14
Multi-component communication intervention for children with autism: A randomized controlled trial	14
Clinical and parental predictors of emotion regulation following cognitive behaviour therapy in children with autism	13
“[I] don’t wanna just be like a cog in the machine”: Narratives of autism and skilled employment	13
Gastrointestinal concerns in children with autism spectrum disorder: A qualitative study of family experiences	13
Attributions, causal beliefs, and help-seeking behavior of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and sleep problems	13
In their own words: The impact of subtle language and communication difficulties as described by autistic girls and boys without intellectual disability	13
Altered DNA methylation in a severe subtype of idiopathic autism: Evidence for sex differences in affected metabolic pathways	13
Atypical social communication is associated with positive initial impressions among peers with autism spectrum disorder	13
Diagnostic- and sex-based differences in depression symptoms in autistic and neurotypical early adolescents	13
Learning from the experts: Evaluating a participatory autism and universal design training for university educators	13
Transitioning youth with autism spectrum disorders and other special health care needs into adult primary care: A provider survey	13
Effects of exercise on sleep, melatonin level, and behavioral functioning in children with autism	13
Autism screening and conditional cash transfers in Chile: Using the Quantitative Checklist (Q-CHAT) for early autism detection in a low resource setting	13
The health of college students on the autism spectrum as compared to their neurotypical peers	13
Preemptive interventions for infants and toddlers with a high likelihood for autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Effects of being watched on eye gaze and facial displays of typical and autistic individuals during conversation	13
The sensory experiences of autistic people: A metasynthesis	13
Sex-related patterns of intrinsic functional connectivity in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders	13
The impact of a positive autism identity and autistic community solidarity on social anxiety and mental health in autistic young people	13
Parents’ perceptions and concerns about physical activity participation among adolescents with autism spectrum disorder	13
Comparing sleep patterns between children with autism spectrum disorder and children with typical development: A matched case–control study	13
Toward deeper understanding and wide-scale implementation of naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions	13
Mental health Project ECHO Autism: Increasing access to community mental health services for autistic individuals	13
Difference in default mode network subsystems in autism across childhood and adolescence	13
Working toward a better understanding of the life experiences of women on the autism spectrum	13
Associative learning under uncertainty in adults with autism: Intact learning of the cue-outcome contingency, but slower updating of priors	12
Investigating the structure of trait rumination in autistic adults: A network analysis	12
Randomized pilot study of a special education advocacy program for Latinx/minority parents of children with autism spectrum disorder	12
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	12
Prenatal exposure to paternal smoking and likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	12
An evaluation of intervention research for transition-age autistic youth	12
The impact of autism-related training programs on physician knowledge, self-efficacy, and practice behavior: A systematic review	12
Differential predictors of well-being versus mental health among parents of pre-schoolers with autism	12
Considerations of the built environment for autistic individuals: A review of the literature	12
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	12
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	12
Autistic differences in the temporal dynamics of social attention	12
Atypical visual-auditory predictive coding in autism spectrum disorder: Electrophysiological evidence from stimulus omissions	12
The effect of school exposure and personal contact on attitudes towards bullying and autism in schools: A cohort study with a control group	12
Māori and autism: A scoping review	12
Objective and subjective psychosocial outcomes in adults with autism spectrum disorder: A 6-year longitudinal study	12
Atypicalities in the developmental trajectory of cortico-striatal functional connectivity in autism spectrum disorder	11
Production and comprehension of pronouns in individuals with autism: A meta-analysis and systematic review	11
Cross-cultural perspectives on the meaning of family quality of life: Comparing Korean immigrant families and Canadian families of children with autism spectrum disorder	11
Health status of Medicare-enrolled autistic older adults with and without co-occurring intellectual disability: An analysis of inpatient and institutional outpatient medical claims	11
Social-communicative gestures at baseline predict verbal and nonverbal gains for children with autism receiving the Early Start Denver Model	11
Letter to the Editor: A possible threat to data integrity for online qualitative autism research	11
Continuing to look in the mirror: A review of neuroscientific evidence for the broken mirror hypothesis, EP-M model and STORM model of autism spectrum conditions	11
Inclusion, acceptance, shame and isolation: Attitudes to autism in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia	11
‘It’s being a part of a grand tradition, a grand counter-culture which involves communities’: A qualitative investigation of autistic community connectedness	11
A qualitative exploration of autistic mothers’ experiences II: Childbirth and postnatal experiences	11
Prediction of social behavior in autism spectrum disorders: Explicit versus implicit social cognition	11
A longitudinal study of the mental health of autistic children and adolescents and their parents during COVID-19: Part 2, qualitative findings	11
Motor atypicalities in infancy are associated with general developmental level at 2 years, but not autistic symptoms	10
Toward better characterization of restricted and unusual interests in youth with autism	10
Cutting our own keys: New possibilities of neurodivergent storying in research	10
Barriers and facilitators for obtaining support services among underserved families with an autistic child: A systematic qualitative review	10
Non-pharmacological interventions for autistic children: An umbrella review	10
A preliminary randomized, controlled trial of executive function training for children with autism spectrum disorder	10
Performance of the Autism Observation Scale for Infants with community-ascertained infants showing early signs of autism	10
Anxiety in autistic individuals who speak few or no words: A qualitative study of parental experience and anxiety management	10
“Chasing hope”: Parents’ perspectives on complementary and alternative interventions for children with autism in Kazakhstan	10
Potential role for immune-related genes in autism spectrum disorders: Evidence from genome-wide association meta-analysis of autistic traits	10
Unmet health care needs and health care quality in youth with autism spectrum disorder with and without intellectual disability	10
A randomized controlled trial into the effects of probiotics on electroencephalography in preschoolers with autism	10
Short report: Call to action for autism clinicians in response to anti-Black racism	10
Thinking, fast and slow on the autism spectrum	10
When the mask comes off: Mothers’ experiences of parenting a daughter with autism spectrum condition	10
Using phecode analysis to characterize co-occurring medical conditions in autism spectrum disorder	10
Pathological demand avoidance in children and adolescents: A systematic review	9