Patricia Howlin

TL;DR: Evaluated psychometric properties of the Emotion Regulation and Social Skills Questionnaire (ERSSQ), a rating scale designed specifically to assess the social skills of young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), provide evidence for the concurrent and criterion validity of the ERSSQ Parent form, and the concurrent validity of a Teacher form.

TL;DR: Compared to typically developing controls, young people with autism spectrum disorder had autobiographical memory difficulties that were characterised by a reduction in the retrieval of semantic personality traits, with more initial prompts required to facilitate episodic memory retrieval and fewer episodic memories containing emotional and sensory information.

TL;DR: The Secret Agent Society (SAS) Program, an intervention to enhance social-emotional skills, was provided by schools for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

TL;DR: The results indicate that, while verbal aggression shows no evidence of diminishing with age, physical aggression, and temper tantrums decline with age before 19 years for people with Down syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, and William syndrome; and after 19 yearsfor people with Prader–Willi syndrome.

TL;DR: A systematic review of randomised controlled trials of early social communication interventions for children with autism found generalisation was not consistent across all skills within studies, and one study found no generalisation despite evidence for initial target learning within the intervention context.