Research summaries for autism therapy: high-functioning autism

definition of high-functioning autism: Refers to higher skill levels in people who have some kind of special need or impairment. For people with autism, there is a range of severity of autism between individuals. For example, someone who has good communication skills and appropriate behaviors is said to be high functioning.
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Positive Behavioral and Electrophysiological Changes Following Neurofeedback Training in Children with Autism, Summarized Aug 13, 2008

Neurofeedback may be able to help children with high-functioning autism sustain attention.

This article includes two studies. One was designed to see if neurofeedback training could change the brain waves of children with autism. The other was designed to see if those changed brain waves resulted in a change in the autism symptoms of the children. Study one had eight children and study two had 19 children. Neurofeedback therapy was able to change the neural networks in the brain and improve autism symptoms. Read more...

Effectiveness of Manualized Summer Social Treatment Program for High-Functioning Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Summarized Jul 28, 2008

Summer social treatment programs that include the Skillstreaming approach may help children with autism learn social skills.

This study was designed to see if a summer program can increase the social skills of children with high-functioning autism. Both parents and staff believed that the children gained social skills from the summer program. The parents and staff also believed that the children gained adaptive skills. The results from the summer school seemed to stem from the constant feedback given to the children from the staff. The study had 54 children ages 6-13. Read more...

Becoming a Face Expert: A Computerized Face-Training Program for High-Functioning Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Summarized Jul 22, 2008

People with high-functioning autism may be taught to process facial cues.

This study tested whether face training therapy could to teach people with autism to process facial cues. The study had five people who received face processing therapy (ages 12-32) and five controls. The computer face training program was able to teach face processing skills and these skills were generalized into daily behavior. These skills were achieved in just eight hours of training. The authors note that this study suggests that the brain is plastic and that these skills can be taught even to young adults. Read more...

Targeting Prosody in an Eight-year-old Child with High-functioning Autism during an Interactive Approach to Therapy, Summarized Jul 16, 2008

Speech therapy can be used to help children with autism use normal tone and emotion and pacing when speaking (prosody).

This case study describes a boy with high-functioning autism who needed therapy to help with prosody. For example, the boy lengthened words when he spoke and he paused a great deal when speaking. The therapy approach involved a lot of back and forth between the therapist and child. While the therapy was able to help the child, the authors note that future research on this intervention would be hard since children vary so much with regards to prosody. They also note that prosody is best addressed once the child has acquired good language. Read more...

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Synonyms for high-functioning autism include: high functioning, high functioning autism, high-functioning
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