Social communicative variation in 1–3‐year‐olds with severe visual impairment

Abstract

The study reveals trends in early social communicative development in the young VI population and provides preliminary reliability and validity testing for future research within a clinical context.

Assessing Autism Spectrum Disorder in People with Sensory Impairments Combined with Intellectual Disabilities

“…It is difficult to correctly interpret ASD symptoms in persons with combined sensory and intellectual disabilities because symptoms are often not unique to ASD alone. Persons with hearing loss and visual impairments can show drawbacks and peculiarities in language and communication (Knoors and Vervloed 2011 ; Wolters et al 2011 ; Cass 1998 ; Dale et al 2014 ; Fraiberg 1977 ; Gense and Gense 2005 ) and a delay in the development of Theory of Mind (Peterson and Siegal 2000 ; Peterson et al 2000 ). These impairments are similar to some diagnostic criteria for ASD that were mentioned earlier.…”

“…Especially in the domains of social and communicative development and daily living skills people with both sensory and intellectual disabilities show many typical features of ASD (Dalby et al 2009 ; Evenhuis et al 2009 ; Hoevenaars-van den Boom et al 2009 ; Munde and Vlaskamp 2014 ). Examples of these behaviours include: stereotyped movements, such as hand waving and body rocking (Gense and Gense 2005 ; Medeiros et al 2014 ), lack of reciprocity in social interaction (Dale et al 2014 ), poor use of language for social purposes and awkward pragmatic language use (Tadić et al 2010 ). Prevalence of ASD in people with sensory or intellectual disabilities is much higher than the 1–2% normally found in the total population (CDC 2017 ).…”

Behavioural assessment of autism spectrum disorders in people with multiple disabilities

“…People with visual impairments show autistic features too (Cass ; Pérez‐Pereira & Conti‐Ramsden ; Hobson ). They may show a lack of reciprocity in social interaction (Fraiberg ; Dale, Tadić, & Sonksen ), poor use of language for social purposes and awkward pragmatic language use (Tadić, Pring, & Dale ), problems in understanding and using non‐verbal communication (Gense & Gense ) and stereotyped behaviours (Tröster, Brambring, & Beelmann ; Warren ). These behaviours do not necessarily originate from ASD but are a direct result of the visual impairment.…”

Critical Review of Setback in Development in Young Children with Congenital Blindness or Visual Impairment

“…The problems in language and communication, the occurrence of stereotyped behaviour, and the behavioural problems of the children with blindness that had a setback had parallels with ASD. This is described by, amongst others: Preisler (1993Preisler ( , 1997, Sonksen and Dale (2002), Dale (2005), Dale and Salt (2008), and Dale, Tadic, and Sonksen (2013).…”