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Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
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Assessing Cardiovascular Responses to Stressors in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders

June Groden

Groden Center and on appointment at Brown University and the University of Rhode Island

Matthew S. Goodwin

Groden Centre, msgoodwin@earthlinknet

M. Grace Baron

Wheaton College

Gerald Groden

Brown University and the University of Rhode Island

Wayne F. Velicer

University of Rhode Island

Lewis P. Lipsitt

Brown University

Stefan G. Hofmann

Boston University

Brett Plummer

HSM Group

Characteristics of persons With autism and other developmental disabilities may make this population especially vulnerable to the effects of stress. Prior research on stress and its measurement in this population is revieWed. Using a single-case multielement design, this study explores the feasibility of measuring cardiovascular responses to four stressors in 10 individuals (age 13 to 37 years) With autism and other developmental disabilities. Results suggest that assessing cardiovascular responses is a viable procedure for identifying individual differences in reactivity to specific environmental stressors. Implications of this research and future directions for assessment are discussed.

Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 20, No. 4, 244-252 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/10883576050200040601
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