Intervention research to benefit people with autism: How old are the participants?

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• 作者：Timothy L. Edwards ; Erin E. Watkins ; Amin D. Lotfizadeh ; Alan Poling ; ^{alan.poling@wmich.edu}
• 关键词：Autism ; Autism spectrum disorders ; Age of participants ; Sex of participants ; Intervention research
• 刊名：Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：8_17509467
• 类别：soc
• 出版时间：July-September, 2012
• 卷：6
• 期：3
• 页码：996-999
• 文件大小：209 K

摘要

We determined the reported ages of participants with autism (or autism spectrum disorders) in 146 intervention research studies published recently in four prominent journals. Most participants were between two and eight years of age and only 1.7%of them were 20 or more years of age. These findings suggest that the special needs of older people with autism have generated little interest among researchers, which is arguably an unfortunate oversight.