Browsing by Author "Hoogenhout, Michelle"

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Autism screening in children: using the social communication questionnaire in a Western Cape population

Author: Bozalek, Faye Date: 2013 Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a global prevalence of approximately one percent of all new births. There is a lack of literature on autism in South Africa. South African children are waiting years for diagnoses, despite the fact that early ... Read more
Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of Neurodevelopmental Assessment Tools in a South African Context

Author: Zieff, Michal R Date: 2021 Neurodevelopmental and behavioural tools, used to assess children's cognitive and psychological development, play important supportive roles in clinical decision-making processes. It is therefore important that inferences made based on the ... Read more
Examining empathy in Autism Spectrum Disorders: cognitive, subjective and physiological correlates of the perception of pain

Author: Hoogenhout, Michelle Date: 2017 Social-communication impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often ascribed to deficits in empathy. I argue that social-communicative deficits in ASD stem from impairments in specific aspects of empathy, rather than a general empathy ... Read more

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