Advances in Autism: Volume 6 Issue 1

Editorial

Eddie Chaplin, Jane McCarthy

Conversation skills training for people with autism through virtual reality: using responsible research and innovation approach

Yurgos Politis, Connie Sung, Lizbeth Goodman, Michael Leahy

Users’ role in co-designing products has changed: from influencing outcomes to influencing development/design; from standardizing to customising products/outcomes; from…

Autism spectrum disorders in high secure psychiatric care: a review of literature, future research and clinical directions

David Murphy, Clare Allely

The purpose of this paper is to review available literature targeting the assessment and management of individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) admitted to high secure…

Evaluation of autism awareness training provided to staff working in a high secure psychiatric care hospital

David Murphy, Josephine Grace Broyd

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate autism awareness training provided to staff working in a high secure psychiatric care (HSPC) hospital.

Emotion regulation and intervention in adults with autism spectrum disorder: a synthesis of the literature

Jan Mei Lim

Emotion regulation is an ongoing multiprocess phenomenon and is a challenging developmental task to acquire in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have different…

Contingencies of self-worth in adolescents with ASD and their correlation with subjective adjustment to school

Shuhei Ogawa, Michio Kojima

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to validate the Contingencies of Self-Worth Scale (CSWS) for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing…

Why caregivers discontinue applied behavior analysis (ABA) and choose communication-based autism interventions

Henny Kupferstein

The purpose of this paper is to explore why autistic people and their caregivers choose interventions other than applied behavior analysis (ABA), and how their decision impacts…