Brief report: Early social communication behaviors in the younger siblings of children with autism
Brief report: Early social communication behaviors in the younger siblings of children with autism
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DOI：
10.1007/s10803-005-0009-6
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发表时间：
2005-10-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Spence, MA
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作者：
Goldberg, WA;Jarvis, KL;Spence, MA
自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童的年幼兄弟姐妹的早期社会和沟通发展是当前研究的重点。包括三组儿童：（1）被诊断患有ASD的幼儿，（2）患有ASD的稍大孩子的家庭中的弟弟妹妹，以及（3）典型发育的幼儿。所有儿童都参加了一个名为早期社会沟通量表（ESCS; [Mundy & Hogan，1996，A Preliminary Manual for the Abridged Early Social Communication Scales（ESCS）Unpublished manual，University of迈阿密]）的录像结构化干预程序。非常年幼的兄弟姐妹与被诊断患有自闭症谱系障碍的幼儿以及一组发育正常的幼儿进行了比较。结果表明，在ESCS的四个分量表中的三个分量表上，年幼的兄弟姐妹的社会交往行为与典型发育儿童的社会交往行为不同，但与ASD组所表现出的行为无关。兄弟姐妹中ASD的遗传易感性和家庭互动的特征可能解释了自闭症谱系障碍儿童的年幼兄弟姐妹中观察到的损伤水平。
The early social and communicative development of very young siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the focus of the current study. Three groups of children were included: (1) young children diagnosed with ASD, (2) younger siblings in families with a somewhat older child with ASD, and (3) young typically developing children. All children participated in a videotaped, structured interactional procedure called the Early Social Communication Scales (ESCS; [Mundy & Hogan, 1996, A Preliminary Manual for the Abridged Early Social Communication Scales (ESCS) Unpublished manual, University of Miami]). Very young siblings were compared to young children with a diagnosed autism spectrum disorder and to a group of young typically developing children. Results indicated that, on three of four of the ESCS subscales, the social communicative behaviors of the younger siblings differed from those of the typically developing children but not from the behaviors displayed by the ASD group. Genetic vulnerability for ASD among siblings and characteristics of family interaction may explain the level of impairment observed in the very young siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders.