Should Lecturers be willing to Teach High-functioning Autistic Students: What do They Need to Know?

Academic institutions are currently developing special programs based on the belief that the overall success of universities relies on the integration of diverse population groups. This study investigates the role of the organizational support to lecturers to facilitate the integration of students with high-functioning autism (HFA). A questionnaire was developed and completed by 103 lecturers to examine their attitudes on the best methods for integrating students with HFA in higher education. Both regression and path analysis were performed. The findings show that the university’s support is the main factor that influences instructors’ beliefs on the best method of integration, either by creating a tolerant atmosphere in the institution or using specially developed teaching methods. Lecturers' positive emotional responses and desire to be familiar with and involved with HFA students influence lecturers’ ability to provide effective support to students with HFA.

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High Intellectual Potential and High Functioning Autism: Clinical and Neurophysiological Features in a Pediatric Sample

Brain Sciences ◽

10.3390/brainsci11121607 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 1607

Author(s):

Assia Riccioni ◽

Stefano Pro ◽

Lorena Di Criscio ◽

Monica Terribili ◽

Martina Siracusano ◽

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Keyword(s):

Potential Role ◽

High Functioning Autism ◽

Event Related Potentials ◽

Adaptive Skills ◽

High Functioning ◽

Related Potentials ◽

Autistic Symptoms ◽

Intellectual Potential

High Intellectual Potential (HIP) and High Functioning Autism (HFA) are two different conditions sharing some clinical and neurobiological features. The aim of the present study was to characterize a sample of HIP children (n: 16; M/F: 14/2; median age: 10 years) in comparison to those with HFA (n: 17; M/F: 16/1; median age: 13 years) and to neurotypically developed (NTD) children (n: 10; M/F: 4/6; median age: 11 years) from a clinical and neurophysiological perspective. Specifically, a standardized clinical assessment of cognitive and adaptive skills, autistic symptoms, executive functions and behavioral features was performed. Moreover, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded, referring specifically to the mismatch negativity (MMN) and P300 paradigm. Our data highlighted the presence of similarities between the intellectually gifted individuals and the ones with autism (i.e., a nonhomogeneous intellective profile, an adaptive skills impairment, subthreshold autistic symptoms and increased perfectionism). Interestingly, a distinct neurophysiological characterization between groups came out, with evidence of a reduced MMN amplitude only in the HFA group. Furthermore, no differences within groups in the P300 component emerged. Therefore, our results start to provide a more informative characterization of the HIP phenotype in comparison to those of HFA and NTD, highlighting the potential role of the MMN amplitude index in helping clinicians and researchers to distinguish between HIP and HFA. Nevertheless, further research on the topic is strongly needed.

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Investigating University Student Violence and the Role Islamic Education can Play to Lessen This Phenomenon

International Journal of Higher Education ◽

10.5430/ijhe.v9n2p40 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 40

Author(s):

Sadeq Hassan Al-Shudaifat

Keyword(s):

Teaching Methods ◽

Transportation Policy ◽

Islamic Education ◽

University Teaching ◽

Student Violence ◽

Main Challenge ◽

The University ◽

Hashemite University ◽

Academic Year

This study aimed at investigating the causes of the university violence and the contribution of Islamic education in confronting it. The sample of the study consisted of (386) students studying at the Hashemite University during the second semester of the academic year 2012/2013. The researcher developed a questionnaire which consisted of (73) items. The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences due to gender and academic year. However, results did not show statistically significant differences due to specialization or grade average. Furthermore, the results indicated that the problem of transportation was considered as the main challenge to the university administration. The need for a transportation policy was seen urgent to reduce university violence. Finally, weak religious and moral beliefs, rigid and traditional teaching methods, and the effect of local, regional, and global media all played a major role in provoking in university violence. The results also indicated that respect for human dignity received the highest average in terms of importance and practice to reduce the phenomenon of university violence.Among the most important recommendations of the current study is working on a solution to the transportation problem and reinforcing the role of the tribe and the religious social values as well as varying and modernizing the university teaching methods and activating the role of the audio-visual and written media to keep pace with the needs of young people.

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Emotional Responses to Odors in Children with High-Functioning Autism: Autonomic Arousal, Facial Behavior and Self-Report

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders ◽

10.1007/s10803-012-1629-2 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 869-879 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Jasna Legiša ◽

Daniel S. Messinger ◽

Enzo Kermol ◽

Luc Marlier

Keyword(s):

High Functioning Autism ◽

Emotional Responses ◽

Self Report ◽

Autonomic Arousal ◽

High Functioning ◽

Facial Behavior

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Autism and fetal androgens: Commentary on Levy et al. (Lancet 2009; 374: 1627-38)

10.31234/osf.io/ze8ps ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Martin Voracek

Keyword(s):

Asperger Syndrome ◽

High Functioning Autism ◽

Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽

Children With Autism ◽

In Utero ◽

Sex Hormone ◽

Mothers And Fathers ◽

High Functioning ◽

General Populations

Children with autism or high-functioning autism (Asperger syndrome), as well as their unaffected first-degree relatives (siblings, mothers, and fathers), have conspicuously lower (hypermasculinised) 2D:4D than healthy general populations controls. This finding has been independently replicated in by now some ten further reports. All in all, this points to a role of altered sex-hormone profiles, already arising in utero, in the pathways leading to the neurodevelopmental disorder autism.

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The effect of being imitated on empathy for pain in adults with high-functioning autism: Disturbed self–other distinction leads to altered empathic responding

Autism ◽

10.1177/1362361317701268 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (6) ◽

pp. 712-727 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Lize De Coster ◽

Jan R Wiersema ◽

Eliane Deschrijver ◽

Marcel Brass

Keyword(s):

Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽

High Functioning Autism ◽

Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Spectrum Disorder ◽

High Functioning ◽

Empathy For Pain ◽

Relationship Of ◽

Motor Representations

Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is associated with problems in empathy. Recent research suggests that impaired control over self–other overlap based on motor representations in individuals with autism spectrum disorder might underlie these difficulties. In order to investigate the relationship of self–other distinction and empathy for pain in high-functioning autism and matched controls, we manipulated self–other distinction by using a paradigm in which participants are either imitated or not by a hand on a computer screen. A strong pain stimulus is then inflicted on the observed hand. Behavioral and physiological results in this study showed that overall affective responses while watching pain movies were the same in adults with high-functioning autism as in controls. Furthermore, controls showed higher affective responding after being imitated during the whole experiment, replicating previous studies. Adults with high-functioning autism, however, showed increased empathic responses over time after being imitated. Further exploratory analyses suggested that while affective responding was initially lower after being imitated compared to not being imitated, affective responding in the latter part of the experiment was higher after being imitated. These results shed new light on empathic abilities in high-functioning autism and on the role of control over self–other representational sharing.

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The Efficiency of Economic Education

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2006-7-108-117 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 108-117

Author(s):

A. Porokhovsky

Keyword(s):

Training Program ◽

Teaching Methods ◽

Modern Society ◽

Economic Education ◽

Main Topic ◽

The Usa ◽

Contemporary Technology ◽

Economic Training ◽

Main Factor

The main topic of the article is the global problem of the role of economic education in modern society. On the basis of the USA and EU countries experience the author demonstrates different ways of increasing the efficiency of economic training - program modification, changing of teaching methods, using contemporary technology and teacher positions as the main factor.

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