Atom J Lesiak, Natasha Malik, Joan C Griswold
A Creative Communication Partnership to Promote Curricula Dissemination on Social Media
Journal of STEM outreach
heterogeneity among individuals autism spectrum widely acknowledged barrier develop effective interventions overcoming challenge requires characterization individual differences especially children minimally verbal often excluded research studies studies describe autistic subgroups identify single minimally verbal verbal group based single identifying measure eg ados module one single item indicating absence phrase speech determining personalized courses intervention requires detailed understanding since single intervention effective minimally verbal present study identified comprehensive profiles cognitive language social communication skills within large diverse group minimally verbal children autism analysis combined baseline data two studies yield sample 344 participants 3 8 years old time study onset 60 identified raceethnicity white via latent profile analysis lpa threegroup model identified best fit data profile identification dependent participants combination cognitive expressive social communication characteristics rather single domain one group n 206 global delays two groups n 95 n 43 variable strengths cognition communication findings suggest lowfrequencyminimally verbal communicators autism heterogeneous characteristics systematically organized