MASTERPOST: Research on Autism in Women & Girls
On the Gender Difference in Autism Research
Neuroscience
- Women with autistic-spectrum disorder: magnetic resonance imaging study of brain anatomy (2007)
- Sex Differences Along the Autism Continuum: A Twin Study of Brain Structure (2019)
Understanding the Autistic Female Phenotype
* Not all females will fit these descriptions, and not everyone who fits these descriptions will be female.
- Under-identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Females: A Case Series Illustrating the Unique Presentation of this Disorder in Young Women (2014)
- Gender Differences and Similarities: Autism Symptomatology and Developmental Functioning in Young Children (2018)
- Self-reported sex differences in high-functioning adults with autism: a meta-analysis (2018)
- Sex differences in restricted repetitive behaviors and interests in children with autism spectrum disorder: An Autism Treatment Network study (2018)
- What About the Girls? Sex-Based Differences in Autistic Traits and Adaptive Skills (2018)
- Exploring the female autism phenotype of repetitive behaviours and restricted interests (RBRIs): a systematic PRISMA review (2019)
- Girls and women with autism (2019)
- Linguistic markers of autism in girls: evidence of a “blended phenotype” during storytelling (2019)
- Understanding and recognising the female phenotype of autism spectrum disorder and the “camouflage” hypothesis: a systematic PRISMA review (2019)
Diagnosis & Girls and Women
- Missed diagnosis or misdiagnosis? Girls and women on the autism spectrum (2011)
- How Different Are Girls and Boys Above and Below the Diagnostic Threshold for Autism Spectrum Disorders? (2012)
- Factors influencing the probability of a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in girls versus boys (2017)
- Protective effect or missed diagnosis? Females with autism spectrum disorder (2017)
- Towards understanding the under-recognition of girls and women on the autism spectrum (2017)
- Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) scores in males and females diagnosed with autism: a naturalistic study (2018)
- Assessing autism in females: The importance of a sex-specific comparison (2019)
- Sex Differences in an Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: Are Restricted Repetitive Behaviors and Interests the Key? (2019)
- Women and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Diagnosis and Implications for Treatment of Adolescents and Adults (2019)
The Experience of Autistic Girls & Women
The Experience of Late-Diagnosed Autistic Women
- The Experiences of Late-diagnosed Women with Autism Spectrum Conditions: An Investigation of the Female Autism Phenotype (2016)
- Journey to diagnosis for women with autism (2019)
- ‘I was exhausted trying to figure it out’: The experiences of females receiving an autism diagnosis in middle to late adulthood (2019)
Last updated: 11/2019
