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A new study led by The Kids Research Institute Australia has found a link between masculine facial features and autism.

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New research from the Telethon Institute has shown that children with an intellectual disability are up to 10x more likely to be admitted to hospital.

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Measures of autistic traits are only useful – for pre-diagnostic screening, exploring individual differences, and gaining personal insight – if they efficiently and accurately assess autism as currently conceptualised while maintaining psychometric validity across different demographic groups. We recruited 1322 autistic and 1279 non-autistic adults who varied in autism status (non-autistic, diagnosed autistic, self-identifying autistic) and gender (cisgender men, cisgender women, gender diverse) to assess the psychometric properties of the Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory, a recently developed measure of autistic traits that examines six trait domains using 42 self-report statements.

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Our findings provide additional insight into the early clinical profile of Rett syndrome.

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Increased prenatal testosterone exposure has been hypothesized as a mechanism underlying autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

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Data linkage is the bringing together of specific datasets from different sources using demographic information on individuals within a population.

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The aim of this paper was to describe the meaning of wellbeing for children and youth with disabilities from their perspective.

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Prevalence of overweight/obesity in children and youth with autism spectrum disorder, and associations between weight status and range of factors