Trastornos leves del espectro autista en educación infantil: prevalencia, sintomatología co-ocurrente y desarrollo psicosocial

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Morales, Paula Domènech-Llaberia, Edelmira Jané, María Claustre Canals, Y. Josefa
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Study about the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms in 1104 preschool-aged children attending urban/rural schools. We describe co-occurrent symptoms and compare psychosocial development and parents’ mental health between children with ASD-symptoms, children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, and controls. The prevalence of ASD symptoms ranged between 1.18-2.17% depending on the informants (parents, teachers or both). In ASD children, ADHD symptoms (58%) and tics (50%) were most co-occurrent. There was no difference between ASD and ADHD groups in psychosocial development. The ASD group was perceived less competent than controls in fine coordination, self-help skills, play-with-peers (family) and also less proficient in language comprehension/production skills and pretend-play (school). More than one-third of mothers in the ASD and ADHD groups reported psychological symptoms, significantly differing from control fathers and mothers. For early detection of ASD, family and school information needs to be studied, considering ADHD symptoms as valid early predictors.
Starting Page	217
Ending Page	231
Page Count	15
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DOI	10.5944/rppc.vol.18.num.3.2013.12922
Volume Number	18
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/RPPC/article/download/12922/pdf_23
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.5944/rppc.vol.18.num.3.2013.12922
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article