Brief Report: Odour Awareness in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Hirokazu Kumazaki; Masako Okamoto; Yuko Yoshimura; Takashi Ikeda; Chiaki Hasegawa; Daisuke Saito; Ryoichiro Iwanaga; Sara Tomiyama; Kyung-min An; Yoshio Minabe; Mitsuru Kikuchi

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3710-y

Brief Report: Odour Awareness in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Hirokazu Kumazaki^*, Masako Okamoto, Yuko Yoshimura, Takashi Ikeda, Chiaki Hasegawa, Daisuke Saito, Ryoichiro Iwanaga, Sara Tomiyama, Kyung-min An, Yoshio Minabe, Mitsuru Kikuchi

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The elucidation of odour awareness in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is important. We compared the odour awareness of young children with ASD with those of typical development (TD) children using the Children’s Olfactory Behavior in Everyday Life (COBEL) questionnaire, which is a self-report measure that mainly assesses odour awareness. Forty-five young boys (aged 5–6 years), including 20 children with ASD and 25 TD children, participated in this study. The total COBEL score of the young children with ASD was lower than that of the TD children (p

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1809–1815
Journal	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume	50
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3710-y
Publication status	Published - 4 Aug 2018

Keywords

Autism spectrum disorders
Olfactory
Odour awareness
Self-report
VABS II

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