10:57pm July 30, 2014

science articles on autism and gender

this-reading-by-lightning:

moar resource posttttt (nothing here is even pro-baron-cohen, let alone by baron-cohen)

general research

• “Review of gender differences in core symptomatology in autism  spectrum disorders”
• “How Different Are Girls and Boys Above and Below the Diagnostic Threshold for Autism Spectrum Disorders?”
• “Girls With Social and/or Attention Deficits: A Descriptive Study of 100 Clinic Attenders”
• “Autism Symptoms and Internalizing Psychopathology in Girls and Boys with Autism Spectrum Disorders”
• “Sex Differences in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Identified Within a High-Risk Infant Cohort”

“extreme male brain theory” smackdowns

• “Are autistic traits autistic?”
• “The Extreme Male Brain Theory of Autism and the Potential Adverse Effects for Boys and Girls with Autism”

on connections between anorexia and autism in girls

“The sociocommunicative deficit subgroup in anorexia nervosa: autism spectrum disorders  and neurocognition in a community-based, longitudinal study”

more recent, less gender-biased screening tools

“The Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ)-Revised Extended Version (ASSQ-REV): An instrument for better capturing the autism phenotype in girls? A preliminary study involving 191 clinical cases and community controls”

“Autism spectrum conditions among children and adolescents: A new profiling tool” (Note: This was not explicitly formulated to screen for autistic girls, like the first one, but my impression/experience of it is that it’s much less reliant on stereotypically “male-brain” things, and pinpoints specifically “autistic” traits much more accurately, regardless of gender).

Again, for the possibly-autistic woman asking me about autism and women, this could be useful information.

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