Although sleep disorders are often difficult to treat, increased knowledge regarding the disordered sleep associated with ASD could lead to effective treatments for these patients.
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder often have issue with facial emotion recognition (FER). The researchers sought to determine whether these deficits arise because facial emotion information is not encoded in their neural signal, or because it is encoded, but fails to translate to FER behavior.
According to this study, some training programs have tried to teach autistic people to act more like non-autistic people to help them gain acceptance. Fewer programs have focused on teaching non-autistic people how to be more autism friendly.
Study researchers sought to address the gap in research regarding the association between poor sleep and executive function in children with ASD, ADHD, or typical development
