Happy New Year, everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! Today’s post is going to be short because I am (Finally!) finishing up the documentation I need to submit to IRB for my dissertation. (If you don’t know what that means, you don’t need to know…it’s boring academic stuff. =) Anyway, I just read a paper on RRBs while doing my research and decided to quickly post about it before I forgot about it.
So, in a paper titled “Changes in Restricted Repetitive Behaviors with age: A study of high-functioning adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders”, authors Chowdhury, Benson, and Hillier looked into whether or not RRBs decrease over time. As you may have deduced from my title, yes, they found that for many people with high-functioning autism, the RRBs DO decrease as the individuals age. This was especially true for subcategories “repetitive use of objects” and “compulsions/rituals”. For more information, check out their paper (quick 7 pages) in the journal, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. I’m sorry this posting is so short. I will try to come back and discuss this paper more after I submit my stuff.
Note: I feel like I say this a lot, so just a quick reminder that most studies in this space have very small sample sizes, so the findings may or may not be able to be generalized to the population. This study only looked at 34 individuals.
References:
Chowdhury, M., Benson, B. A., and Hillier, A. (2010). Changes in restricted repetitive behaviors with age: A study of high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 4, pp.210-216.
Employing the Spectrum 