Social communication disorder outside autism? A diagnostic classification approach to delineating pragmatic language impairment, high functioning autism and specific language impairment
Social communication disorder outside autism? A diagnostic classification approach to delineating pragmatic language impairment, high functioning autism and specific language impairment
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DOI:
10.1111/jcpp.12079
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发表时间:
2013-11-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
Green, Jonathan
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作者:
Gibson, Jenny;Adams, Catherine;Green, Jonathan
BackgroundDevelopmental disorders of language and communication present considerable diagnostic challenges due to overlapping of symptomatology and uncertain aetiology. We aimed to further elucidate the behavioural and linguistic profile associated with impairments of social communication occurring outside of an autism diagnosis.MethodsSix to eleven year olds diagnosed with pragmatic language impairment (PLI), high functioning autism (HFA) or specific language impairment (SLI) were compared on measures of social interaction with peers (PI), restricted and repetitive behaviours/interests (RRBIs) and language ability. Odds ratios (OR) from a multinomial logistic regression were used to determine the importance of each measure to diagnostic grouping. MANOVA was used to investigate differences in subscale scores for the PI measure.ResultsGreater degrees of PI difficulties (OR=1.22, 95% CI=1.05-1.41), RRBI (OR=1.23, 95% CI=1.06-1.42) and expressive language ability (OR=1.16, 95% CI=1.03-1.30) discriminated HFA from PLI. PLI was differentiated from SLI by elevated PI difficulties (OR=0.82, 95% CI=0.70-0.96) and higher expressive language ability (OR=0.88, 95% CI=0.77-0.98), but indistinguishable from SLI using RRBI (OR=1.01, 95% CI=0.94-1.09). A significant effect of group on PI subscales was observed (=1.38, F(4, 56)=19.26, p