The Importance of the Sex of the Parents and of the Sex and Age of the Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Family Resilience

The resilience of parents of children with autism is considered as one substantial strategy to address the problems in raising a child with autism spectrum disorders. In this article, the results of the investigation of the relation between the parents’ family resilience and their sex, as well as their children’s sex and age, are shown. The parents of 312 autistic children in Greece, all in couples, namely 624 men and women, consisted the population sample. It was considered that, at least regarding the factor of the sex, the research would result in covering some research gaps of the bibliography, such as the interest in the fathers, provided that research usually investigates the female side, ignoring, to a great extent, the paternal behavior. Moreover, it was believed that the research can practically contribute as a guide for the inclusion of the parents themselves in the therapeutic interventions of autism and highlight the importance of dividing their responsibilities in the care of the autistic child, which is usually placed on the shoulders of women, namely on the mothers, with every possible consequence on their mental, emotional and physical health. The correlation of resilience and sex also took into account the parameter of the children’s sex, as well as the issue of their age, in order to draw conclusions also about the importance of these factors of impact on the parents’ resilience.

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Modeling engagement in long-term, in-home socially assistive robot interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders

Science Robotics ◽

10.1126/scirobotics.aaz3791 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (39) ◽

pp. eaaz3791 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Shomik Jain ◽

Balasubramanian Thiagarajan ◽

Zhonghao Shi ◽

Caitlyn Clabaugh ◽

Maja J. Matarić

Keyword(s):

Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽

Children With Autism ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Human Robot Interaction ◽

Machine Learning Algorithms ◽

Assistive Robotics ◽

Therapeutic Interventions ◽

Supervised Machine Learning ◽

Spectrum Disorders

Socially assistive robotics (SAR) has great potential to provide accessible, affordable, and personalized therapeutic interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, human-robot interaction (HRI) methods are still limited in their ability to autonomously recognize and respond to behavioral cues, especially in atypical users and everyday settings. This work applies supervised machine-learning algorithms to model user engagement in the context of long-term, in-home SAR interventions for children with ASD. Specifically, we present two types of engagement models for each user: (i) generalized models trained on data from different users and (ii) individualized models trained on an early subset of the user’s data. The models achieved about 90% accuracy (AUROC) for post hoc binary classification of engagement, despite the high variance in data observed across users, sessions, and engagement states. Moreover, temporal patterns in model predictions could be used to reliably initiate reengagement actions at appropriate times. These results validate the feasibility and challenges of recognition and response to user disengagement in long-term, real-world HRI settings. The contributions of this work also inform the design of engaging and personalized HRI, especially for the ASD community.

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Religion and Resilience of Parents with a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorders

International Journal of Psychological Studies ◽

10.5539/ijps.v9n2p16 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 16

Author(s):

Paschalis Kavaliotis

Keyword(s):

Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽

Special Needs ◽

Population Sample ◽

Children With Autism ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Autistic Children ◽

Men And Women ◽

Divine Will ◽

Survey Results ◽

Spectrum Disorders

The resilience of parents with children with autism is a key concept in the confrontation of the autism challenges which demand parents who are mentally healthy and who will be in a position to satisfy the special needs of their autistic children, however, without sinking into loneliness and isolation which affect the less resistant families and upset their inner balance. The parents resort to various sources for the strengthening of resilience, it is the power of God both as a cause of the origin of autism and as the unique or one of the possible ways of resolving the problem. This survey investigated the views on divine will as to the origin and confrontation of autism in families of Christians and Muslims and it attempted to highlight the possible differences in the culture of these groups that are different in terms of culture and religion. The parents of 312 autistic children in Greece, all of them couples, namely 624 men and women, constituted the population sample. The quantitative survey results showed that the Greek Christians satisfy more efficiently their child’s needs, perhaps because they attribute lesser importance to the factor of the Divine compared to the parents of other religions. The weaker connection between the origin and management of the disease and the Divine will allows them to invest in scientific help for addressing a problem which in fact they perceive in more positive social terms than the Muslims do.

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Accurate Diagnosis of the Syndrome in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Parents’ Resilience

Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology ◽

10.5539/jedp.v7n1p218 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 218

Author(s):

Paschalis Kavaliotis

Keyword(s):

Asperger Syndrome ◽

Developmental Disorders ◽

Population Sample ◽

Children With Autism ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Accurate Diagnosis ◽

Family Resilience ◽

The Social ◽

The Family ◽

Spectrum Disorders

Autism is considered to be a much more serious syndrome than other developmental disorders and according to studies it affects the resilience of the parents with an autistic child to a larger degree, comparatively. In this article the results of the investigation between the family resilience of the parents and their child’s diagnosis of the syndrome are presented, as it was regarded that, taking into consideration the autism syndrome and Asperger syndrome, the difficulties in a row of levels would be particularly more severe in diagnosed cases of autism. The parents of 312 autistic children in Greece, all of them couples, namely 624 men and women constituted the population sample. It was found that compared to Asperger syndrome at least, in cases of an autistic child’s upbringing, the parents’ resilience is more fragile, their stress higher and certainly the social support they receive is comparatively reduced.

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Disfluency Characteristics Observed in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Preliminary Report

Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders ◽

10.1044/ffd20.2.42 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 42-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Laura W. Plexico ◽

Julie E. Cleary ◽

Ashlynn McAlpine ◽

Allison M. Plumb

Keyword(s):

Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽

Young Children ◽

Children With Autism ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Typically Developing ◽

Children With Asd ◽

Young Children With Autism ◽

Spectrum Disorders ◽

Developmental Stuttering

This descriptive study evaluates the speech disfluencies of 8 verbal children between 3 and 5 years of age with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Speech samples were collected for each child during standardized interactions. Percentage and types of disfluencies observed during speech samples are discussed. Although they did not have a clinical diagnosis of stuttering, all of the young children with ASD in this study produced disfluencies. In addition to stuttering-like disfluencies and other typical disfluencies, the children with ASD also produced atypical disfluencies, which usually are not observed in children with typically developing speech or developmental stuttering. (Yairi & Ambrose, 2005).

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