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    Sociocultural factors associated with detection of autism among culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia

    The age at which parents or caregivers first develop concerns about their child’s development has significant implications on formal diagnosis and intervention. This study aims to determine the sociocultural f...

    Aniqa Hussain, James Rufus John, Cheryl Dissanayake, Grace Frost… in BMC Pediatrics (2023)

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    KONTAKT® social skills group training for Australian adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized controlled trial

    While there is a large body of evidence drawn from randomised controlled trials supporting the efficacy of SSGT in autistic adolescents, the control arms of these studies are almost exclusively treated either ...

    Bahareh Afsharnejad, Marita Falkmer… in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2022)

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    “I Met Someone Like Me!”: Autistic Adolescents and Their Parents’ Experience of the KONTAKT® Social Skills Group Training

    This study captured the experiences of 35 autistic adolescents and their parents after completing a 16-session variant of social skills group training KONTAKT® (ACTRN12617001117303). Semi-structured interviews...

    Bahareh Afsharnejad, Marita Falkmer… in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disord… (2022)

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    Cross-Cultural Adaptation to Australia of the KONTAKT© Social Skills Group Training Program for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Feasibility Study

    This study investigated the feasibility and cultural validity of KONTAKT©, a manualised social skills group training, in improving the social functioning of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). KON...

    Bahareh Afsharnejad, Marita Falkmer… in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disord… (2020)

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    KONTAKT© for Australian adolescents on the autism spectrum: protocol of a randomized control trial

    Individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience impairing challenges in social communication and interaction across multiple contexts. While social skills group training (SSGT) has shown m...

    Bahareh Afsharnejad, Marita Falkmer, Melissa H. Black, Tasha Alach… in Trials (2019)

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