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Relationships among repetitive behaviors, sensory features, and executive functions in high functioning autism

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Boyd, Brian A., McBee, Matthew, Holtzclaw, Tia, Baranek, Grace T., Bodfish, James W.·2009·Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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This study examined the relationship between repetitive behaviors and sensory processing issues in school-aged children with high functioning autism (HFA). Children with HFA (N = 61) were compared to healthy, typical controls (N = 64) to determine the relationship between these behavioral classes and to examine whether executive dysfunction explained any relationship between the variables. Particular types of repetitive behavior (i.e., stereotypy and compulsions) were related to sensory features in autism; however, executive deficits were only correlated with repetitive behavior. This finding suggests that executive dysfunction is not the shared neurocognitive mechanism that accounts for the relationship between restricted, repetitive behaviors and aberrant sensory features in HFA. Group status, younger chronological age, presence of sensory processing issues, and difficulties with behavior regulation predicted the presence of repetitive behaviors in the HFA group.

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  • Sensory differences in autism are associated with ritualistic and repetitive behaviours including self-injury, and are the strongest predictors of self-injury.

    “Importantly, sensory differences in autism are associated with ritualistic and repetitive behaviours including self-injury [49], and are even the strongest predictors of self-injury [13].”

    From A 'choice', an 'addiction', a way 'out of the lost': Exploring self-injury in autistic people without intellectual disability (2019) · cites this paper as [49]

    The Results section reports that sensory scores correlated with stereotypy, compulsions, and overall repetitive-behavior scores in the ASD group, supporting the general association. It does not report a sensory correlation with self-injury or rituals/sameness; those subscales were correlated with a measure of executive function instead. The separate claim about the strongest predictor is attached to citation [13], not this source [49]. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • The sensory symptoms of school-aged children with autism are affected by the degree of cognitive maturity of the children.

    “It has been observed that the sensory symptoms of school-aged children with autism are affected by the degree of cognitive maturity of the children (9, 20).”

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Authors
Boyd, B. A., McBee, M., Holtzclaw, T., Baranek, G. T., & Bodfish, J. W.
Affiliations
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Corresponding author
Boyd, Brian A.
Venue
Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-10
Volume
3
Issue
4
Pages
959-966
ISSN
  • 1878-0237 (ISSN-L)
  • 1750-9467
OpenAlex
W2042226031
Cited by
210
References
27
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Research in Autism (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
  • UNC Libraries
Funders
  • National Development and Reform Commission
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R21MH085254, R01MH073402)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD042168)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Keywords
high-functioning autism, repetitive behavior, executive dysfunction, stereotypy, compulsive behavior, restricted and repetitive behaviors, behavioral regulation, school-aged children

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