Age of First Walking and Associations with Symptom Severity in Children with Suspected or Diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder

Age of first walking (AOW) is reported to be later in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with typical development. However, the relationship between AOW and variations in ASD symptoms across different neurodevelopmental disorders is largely unknown. This study investigated AOW and its associati...

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Autores principales: Reindal, Lise, Nærland, Terje, Weidle, Bernhard, Lydersen, Stian, Andreassen, Ole A., Sund, Anne Mari
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer US 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31278523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04112-y
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author Reindal, Lise
Nærland, Terje
Weidle, Bernhard
Lydersen, Stian
Andreassen, Ole A.
Sund, Anne Mari
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description Age of first walking (AOW) is reported to be later in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with typical development. However, the relationship between AOW and variations in ASD symptoms across different neurodevelopmental disorders is largely unknown. This study investigated AOW and its association with autism symptom severity in a large sample of children (N = 490, 23% females) clinically evaluated for suspected ASD, differentiated into ASD (n = 376) and non-ASD (n = 114) diagnoses. Children with ASD achieved independent walking significantly later than children with non-ASD diagnoses. AOW was significantly associated with ASD symptom severity, and females had a non-significant later AOW. The current findings suggest that in cases with delayed AOW, ASD should be considered as an actual differential diagnosis, perhaps particularly in girls.
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spelling pubmed-74347232020-08-24 Age of First Walking and Associations with Symptom Severity in Children with Suspected or Diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder Reindal, Lise Nærland, Terje Weidle, Bernhard Lydersen, Stian Andreassen, Ole A. Sund, Anne Mari J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper Age of first walking (AOW) is reported to be later in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with typical development. However, the relationship between AOW and variations in ASD symptoms across different neurodevelopmental disorders is largely unknown. This study investigated AOW and its association with autism symptom severity in a large sample of children (N = 490, 23% females) clinically evaluated for suspected ASD, differentiated into ASD (n = 376) and non-ASD (n = 114) diagnoses. Children with ASD achieved independent walking significantly later than children with non-ASD diagnoses. AOW was significantly associated with ASD symptom severity, and females had a non-significant later AOW. The current findings suggest that in cases with delayed AOW, ASD should be considered as an actual differential diagnosis, perhaps particularly in girls. Springer US 2019-07-05 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7434723/ /pubmed/31278523 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04112-y Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Age of First Walking and Associations with Symptom Severity in Children with Suspected or Diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder
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title_fullStr Age of First Walking and Associations with Symptom Severity in Children with Suspected or Diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder
title_full_unstemmed Age of First Walking and Associations with Symptom Severity in Children with Suspected or Diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder
title_short Age of First Walking and Associations with Symptom Severity in Children with Suspected or Diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder
title_sort age of first walking and associations with symptom severity in children with suspected or diagnosed autism spectrum disorder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31278523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04112-y
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