{"id":213330,"date":"2025-05-06T05:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-individuals-grasp-an-object-may-offer-simpler-diagnosis-for-autism-spectrum-disorder"},"modified":"2025-05-06T05:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:14:09","slug":"how-individuals-grasp-an-object-may-offer-simpler-diagnosis-for-autism-spectrum-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-individuals-grasp-an-object-may-offer-simpler-diagnosis-for-autism-spectrum-disorder","title":{"rendered":"How individuals grasp an object may offer simpler diagnosis for autism spectrum disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-individuals-grasp-an-object-may-offer-simpler-diagnosis-for-autism-spectrum-disorder2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting a timely diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is a major challenge, but new research from York University shows that how young adults\u2014and potentially children\u2014grasp objects could offer a simpler way to diagnose someone on the autism spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/aur.70049\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Autism Research.<\/p>\n<p>The team, part of an international collaboration, used <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/machine+learning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">machine learning<\/a> to analyze naturalistic hand movements\u2014specifically, finger motions during grasping\u2014in autistic and non-autistic individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a timely diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is a major challenge, but new research from York University shows that how young adults\u2014and potentially children\u2014grasp objects could offer a simpler way to diagnose someone on the autism spectrum. The work is published in the journal Autism Research. The team, part of an international collaboration, used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}