Social Communication Disorder
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Social communication disorder is characterized by difficulties with the use of verbal and nonverbal language for social purposes. Primary difficulties are in social interaction, social cognition, and pragmatics.
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Wiki Number: 43–Social Communication Disorder
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Symptoms: not understandin g the semantic (meaning) or the pragmatic (socially-appropriate) aspects
Progression: not capable of understanding language that is not literal, concrete and repetitious
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Therapies: Unless the child is autistic, she or he usually outgrows not understanding language.
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Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
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- Development of a new digital sexual health assessment tool to help patients better understand the factors involved in their sexual disorders - "The Sexual Dysfunction Evaluation Tool » (SEXDET)by Carol Burté on November 4, 2024
CONCLUSION: SEX-DET enabled to improve patients' understanding of their trouble and helped practitioners in structuring better communication during consultations communication regarding sexual dysfunction.The shortcomings of this study was its focus on short-term outcomes, self-reported data, and the absence of control group.
- Unraveling the Role of Wnt Signaling Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A Systematic Reviewby Daniel Bou Najm on November 3, 2024
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or simply autism, is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social communication deficit, restricted interests, and repetitive behavior. Several studies suggested a link between autism and the dysregulation of the Wnt signaling pathway which is mainly involved in cell fate determination, cell migration, cell polarity, neural patterning, and organogenesis. Despite the absence of effective therapy, significant progress has been made in understanding the...
- Atypical prefrontal neural activity during an emotional interference control task in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy studyby Tingting Chen on November 3, 2024
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is typically characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication, which may be associated with a failure to naturally orient to social stimuli, particularly in recognizing and responding to facial emotions. As most previous studies have used nonsocial stimuli to investigate inhibitory control in children and adults with ASD, little is known about the behavioral and neural activation patterns of emotional inhibitory control in adolescent with ASD....
- Exploring Personality Profiles as a Source of Phenotypic Diversity in Autistic Children and Adolescentsby Margo M J Dewitte on November 2, 2024
This study adopts a person-centered approach to evaluate personality diversity as a source of interpersonal variability in autistic children and adolescents, and how personality subgroup membership relates to variability in autistic characteristics, social-emotional presentations, and parenting outcomes. Latent Profile Analysis was used to analyze 569 parent reports on a child-based Five-Factor-Model personality measure (aged 6-18 years; M(age) = 11.8 years, SD = 3.1; 70% boys). Four distinct...