Brief Report: Assessment of the Social-Emotional Profile in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Using a Novel Comic Strip Task

Autor/inn/en	Sivaratnam, Carmel S.; Cornish, Kim; Gray, Kylie M.; Howlin, Patricia; Rinehart, Nicole J.
Titel	Brief Report: Assessment of the Social-Emotional Profile in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Using a Novel Comic Strip Task
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42 (2012) 11, S.2505-2512 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-012-1498-8
Schlagwörter	Verbal Ability; Autism; Theory of Mind; Psychometrics; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Social Development; Emotional Development; Children; Cartoons; Asperger Syndrome; Comparative Analysis; Intention; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mündliche Leistung; Autismus; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Soziale Entwicklung; Gefühlsbildung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Zeichentrickfilm; Asperger-Syndrom; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	This study investigated whether the novel Comic Strip Task (CST) could be used to detect Theory-of-Mind impairments (ToM) in 4- to 8-year-old children with high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Twelve children with either high-functioning autism or Asperger's Disorder and 12 typically-developing children completed the 21-item measure. The overall CST demonstrated moderate internal consistency but the Belief-understanding subscale was excluded from the test due to poor reliability. As predicted, the ASD group performed significantly more poorly than controls on the overall 2-subscale CST and on the intention-understanding subscale. No group differences were found in emotion-understanding subscale performance. Controlling for age, verbal ability was positively correlated with overall CST performance across groups. CST performance in the ASD group positively correlated with parent-reports of communication difficulties. Despite some limitations with the belief-understanding subscale, the CST has promising psychometric features warranting further development of this measure. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10