The Perception of Social Situations by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Nah, Yong-Hwee; Poon, Kenneth K.
Titel	The Perception of Social Situations by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 15 (2011) 2, S.185-203 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361309353616
Schlagwörter	Autism; Likert Scales; Interpersonal Competence; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Social Development; Children; Comparative Analysis; Early Adolescents; Vignettes; Logical Thinking; Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Likert-Skala; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Soziale Entwicklung; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	This study investigated how children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) make social judgments of social situations and provide justifications for their responses. Fifteen children with ASD and 15 typically developing children (ages from 9 to 13 years old) were presented with eight vignettes, based on the Dewey Story Test (Dewey, 1991) and developed for the purposes of this study. The participants rated the appropriateness (on a 4-point Likert scale) of the socially inappropriate event (test item) and non-social appropriate event (control item) in each vignette. Justifications for each rating were also elicited at the end of each vignette. The children with ASD rated socially inappropriate behaviors in vignettes no differently from their typically developing peers but rated control items as stranger. They also had a higher tendency to provide inappropriate/bizarre and don't know/no response justifications instead of appropriate/social justifications (that reflect social awareness). The impact of the method of eliciting social judgments of social situations and its impact on findings are discussed. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10