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Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth
Child development, v 94(3), pp 659-673
May 2023
PMID: 36573397
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Abstract
While social difficulties in autism are well-established, questions remain regarding whether these represent challenges in acquiring or performing such skills, reduced social strengths, or a unique distribution across these domains (i.e., social profile). This study empirically derived social profiles of 211 autistic and non-autistic youth (M
= 13.50; Autistic N = 150; Male N = 151; 85.3% White). Assessments occurred between 2016 and 2020. Results showed that autistic youth exhibit significantly more social acquisition and performance deficits and fewer strengths than nonautistic youth (ds = -.44 to .65). Performance deficits were most-and acquisition deficits least-prominent within autistic profiles, potentially implicating longstanding theoretical models of social difficulties in autism, and supporting new, idiographic approaches for conceptualizing, assessing, and treating social challenges.
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- Title
- Quantifying social skill deficits and strengths profiles in autistic youth
- Creators
- Jacquelyn A Gates - Stony Brook UniversityAlan H Gerber - Stony Brook UniversityCaroline E Miller - University of British ColumbiaMatthew D Lerner - Stony Brook University
- Publication Details
- Child development, v 94(3), pp 659-673
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Grant note
- R01 MH110585 / NIMH NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000904065500001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85145302162
- Other Identifier
- 991021861841604721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Developmental
- Psychology, Educational