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ASD and intellectual disability have different pathways to delayed walking
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30116
Subject(s) - intellectual disability , autism , autism spectrum disorder , psychology , typically developing , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine
Early reports from small samples have suggested that children with autism and intellectual disability (ID) do not have delayed walking, while children with other mental disorders and ID do. There is a high rate of ID in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but delayed onset of walking, while common in ID, is not reported frequently in ASD. Researchers studied the relationship between the severity of ID and delayed walking in children with ASD, compared to children with other diagnoses.