Table A1.
Relationship between keywords and driving themes.
| Interval 1963–2008 | |
| Driving Themes | Keywords |
| Pervasive-developmental-disorders | Childhood-autism, epidemiology, infantile-autism, age, spectrum-disorders, autism, Asperger-syndrome, and young-children. |
| Deficits | Memory, play, normal-children, executive-function, mind, performance, individual, and symbolic-play. |
| Validity | Reliability, differential-diagnosis, issues, children, impairment, intellectual-disability, interview, and classification. |
| Students | Skills, inclusion, acquisition, behavior, instruction, outcomes, peer-interactions, and school. |
| Interval 2009–2011 | |
| Driving Themes | Keywords |
| PDD-NOS | Differential-diagnosis, Matson-evaluation, profound-mental-retardation, adults, challenging-behavior, self-injurious-behavior, social-skills, and Asperger-syndrome. |
| Prevalence | Psychopathology, epidemiology, epilepsy, intellectual-disability, pervasive-developmental-disorders, psychiatric-disorders, rates, and population. |
| Young-children | Joint-attention, mental-retardation, biscuit, Autism-Spectrum-Disorder, behavior, intervention, and autism. |
| Interval 2012–2013 | |
| Driving Themes | Keywords |
| Children | Asperger-syndrome, prevalence, individuals, adolescents, adults, Autism-Spectrum-Disorder, instruction, and autism. |
| Pervasive-developmental-disorders | Gender, childhood-autism, diagnostic-interview, spectrum-disorders, ADHD, and symptoms. |
| Challenging-behaviors | Young-children, aggression, biscuit, intellectual-disability, risk-factors, self-injurious-behavior, social-skills, and stereotype. |
| Skills | Technology, joint-attention, imitation, behavior, communication, disabilities, intervention, and students. |
| Interval 2014–2015 | |
| Driving Themes | Keywords |
| Mothers | Mental-health, parenting-stress, syndrome-specificity, adjustment, behavior-problems, families, fathers, and stress. |
| School | Inclusion, bullying, loneliness, disorders, friendship, perceptions, perspectives, and victimization. |
| Intervention | Autism, young-children, individuals, autism-spectrum-disorders, behavior, skills, students, and video-modeling. |
| Social-skills | DSM-IV, Matson-evaluation, diagnostic-assessment, ASD, Depressive-behavioral-intervention, pervasive-developmental-disorder, social-stories, and play. |
| Symptoms | Anxiety, depression, reliability, abnormalities, adolescents, psychiatric-disorders, toddlers, and youth. |
| Interval 2016–2017 | |
| Driving Themes | Keywords |
| Pervasive-developmental-disorders | Mental-retardation, population, psychopathology, ADHD, prevalence, symptoms, and mental-retardation. |
| Children | Autism, Asperger-syndrome, anxiety, adolescents, adults, Autism-spectrum-disorders, intervention, spectrum-disorders, and autism. |
| Joint-attention | Language, pre-school-children, language-development, communication, infants, toddlers, Young-children, and pretend-play. |
| Interval 2018–2019 | |
| Driving Themes | Keywords |
| Mothers | Stress, mental-health, impact, behavior-problems, families, fathers, social-support, and quality-of-life. |
| Experiences | University, interpretative-phenomenological-analysis, Young-people, friendship, spectrum-disorders, NEEDS, education, and higher-education. |
| Adolescents | Individuals, anxiety, high-school, adults, autism-spectrum-disorder, children, young-adults, and youth. |
| Students | Inclusion, comprehension, elementary, disabilities, instruction, school, skills, and autism. |