Assessing child symptom severity and stress in parents of autistic children

MM Konstantareas, S Homatidis - Journal of Child Psychology …, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
… Konstantareas & Homatidis, 1988). It is therefore understandable that they are more stressed
when their child is hyperirritable—ie aimlessly walking about or running out of the house, …

Brief report: Ear infections in autistic and normal children

MM Konstantareas, S Homatidis - Journal of autism and developmental …, 1987 - Springer
The frequency of ear infections, ear tube drainage, and deafness was examined through
parental reports in autistic and yoke-matched, normal children. For the autistic group these …

Gait patterns of depressed patients and normal subjects.

L Sloman, M Berridge, S Homatidis… - The American journal …, 1982 - europepmc.org
The authors compared the gait patterns of 15 patients with affective disorders with those of
15 normal control subjects. The procedure involved a frame-by-frame analysis of a film of …

Assessing resources and stress in parents of severely dysfunctional children through the Clarke modification of Holroyd's Questionnaire on Resources and Stress

MM Konstantareas, S Homatidis… - Journal of Autism and …, 1992 - Springer
The Holroyd (1974) Questionnaire on Resources and Stress (QRS) although clinically
useful may be too inclusive and not exclusively relevant to severely dysfunctional individuals. …

Mothers' and fathers' self-report of involvement with autistic, mentally delayed, and normal children

MM Konstantareas, S Homatidis - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1992 - JSTOR
… perceived stress (Konstantareas & Homatidis, 1989a). We … , affect reported stress (Konstantareas
& Homatidis, 1989b). In this … story to child or checking up on child once (s)he is in bed …

Chromosomal abnormalities in a series of children with autistic disorder

MM Konstantareas, S Homatidis - Journal of autism and developmental …, 1999 - Springer
… de novo since AW's mother has a normal karyotype 46 XX. … As well, SB's maternal grandmother
had suffered miscarriages… SB's second and third toes on her left foot were fused, and she …

Maternal speech to verbal and higher functioning versus nonverbal and lower functioning autistic children

MM Konstantareas, H Zajdeman, S Homatidis… - Journal of Autism and …, 1988 - Springer
The relationship between autistic children's level of functioning and maternal speech to
children was examined. Ten higher functioning verbal and 10 lower functioning nonverbal …

Effects of developmental disorder on parents: Theoretical and applied considerations

MM Konstantareas, S Homatidis - Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1991 - Elsevier
Research on the effect of severely dysfunctional children on their parents is reviewed in this
paper using the ABCX model as a frame of reference. As this work is relatively recent, there …

Season of birth in infantile autism

…, P Hauser, C Lennox, S Homatidis - Child Psychiatry and …, 1986 - Springer
Existing evidence suggests an excess of winter births in schizophrenia and inconsistent
results for other psychiatric conditions. The present study examined seasonal effects of birth …

The language patterns mothers and fathers employ with their autistic boys and girls

…, L Mandel, S Homatidis - Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988 - cambridge.org
The special features of speech addressed to autistic children by their mothers and fathers
were examined in an effort to clarify how the child's level of functioning influenced parental …