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This trial will determine the effectiveness of the TOBY App as a therapeutic complement to other early interventions children with ASD receive

Characterised by varying degrees of difficulties in communication skills and social abilities, one in every 100 individuals will have a diagnosis of an autism spectrum condition. While autism is known to run in families, the exact causes remain unknown.

Reported practice of some professionals in Australia may not be consistent with international best practice guidelines for ASD diagnosis

Mothers of children with autism without ID had increased risk of cancer, which may relate to common genetic pathways

Strictly defined cases of social (pragmatic) communication disorder and specific language impairment can be distinguished from autism spectrum disorder

Restricted and repetitive behaviours constitute a core symptom domain of autism spectrum disorder

We examine the level of comorbidity found between Autism spectrum disorder and Schizophrenia spectrum disorders at a clinical and trait level

Increases in ASD was not only limited to advancing paternal or maternal age alone but also to differences parental age including younger or older similarly age

The prevalence of intellectual disability has risen in WA over the last 10 years with most of this increase due to mild or moderate intellectual disability

Mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder or intellectual disability have higher rates of treatment episodes for psychiatric disorders

Identified no significant differences between the high- and low-risk fetuses in the rate of prenatal head and body growth throughout the 2nd and 3rd-trimester

Research conducted by this laboratory has previously published four papers examining the relationship between maternal psychiatric disorders and having a...