Listen
About autism- What are autism and Asperger syndrome?
- All about diagnosis
- Possible causes of autism
- Research
- Library of autism resources
- Some facts and statistics
- Courses and training
- Jargon buster
- Glossary of terms: A
- Glossary of terms: B
- Glossary of terms: C
- Glossary of terms: D
- Glossary of terms: E
- Glossary of terms: F
- Glossary of terms: G
- Glossary of terms: H
- Glossary of terms: I
- Glossary of terms: J
- Glossary of terms: L
- Glossary of terms: M
- Glossary of terms: N
- Glossary of terms: O
- Glossary of terms: P
- Glossary of terms: R
- Glossary of terms: S
- Glossary of terms: T
- Glossary of terms: W
Living with autism- Working with people with autism
- Our services
- Information shortcuts for...
- News and events
- Get involved
- Campaigning for change
- Our online shops
- NAS across the UK
Glossary of terms: E
Print this page
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I |
| J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R |
| S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
Early intervention
Thesaurus of psychological index terms
Action taken utilising medical, family, school, social or mental health resources and aimed at infants or children at risk of, or in the early stages of mental, physical, learning or other disorders.
Elective mutism
The autistic spectrum: a guide for parents and professionals, L Wing
Condition in which children talk in one situation, for example, at home, but remain silent elsewhere, eg, at school.
Emotion recognition
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry 27(3)
Ability to recognise how different expressions of particular emotions, such as facial expressions, gestures and sounds, are associated with each other.
Endorphins
Children with autism, Trevarthen et al
A range of naturally produced opium-like substances found in the brain which act as neurotransmitters and affect natural pain control.
Epidemiology
NAAR glossary
The study of the distribution and determinants of diseases in populations.
Event-related potential
Autism: the facts, S Baron Cohen and P Bolton
A specific burst of measurable electrical activity by the brain when it perceives a light or a noise.
Evoked potential
NAS
Evoked potential is an electrical potential recorded from the scalp in response to transient acoustic stimuli. Typically, voltage measurements are obtained for a period of about 10msec following acoustic stimulus, which is repeated and summed several hundred or thousand times to permit extraction of the response from ongoing nonauditory neural activity. The judgement about whether a response has been obtained is normally based on the pattern observed in a visual display of the waveform.
Executive function
Children with autism, Trevarthen et al
Ability to plan complex cognitive tasks, this ability is interfered with by dysfunction in the frontal lobes of the brain.
Related resources
Relevant areas/articles elsewhere on this website
External links
