Lewis, C. N. and Knott, F. and Williams, T. (2007) Sibling Interaction of Children with Autism: Development Over 12 Months. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37 (10). pp. 1987-1995. ISSN 0162-3257Full text not available from this repository.
While deficits in social interaction are central to autism, the sibling relationship has been found to provide a key medium for the development of such skills. Naturalistic observations of sibling pairs including children with autism and controls with Down syndrome were made across two time periods, twelve months apart. Consistent with the evidence on typically developing children, the amount and rate of initiations of both prosocial and agonistic interaction increased, but further analysis suggested that these interactions were stage-managed by the typically developing children. Results show social interaction and imitation in children with autism and the special role that sibling interactions can play. Longitudinal research on the acquisition of social skills in children with developmental disabilities is needed.
|Journal or Publication Title:||Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders|
|Additional Information:||Lewis was senior author. This research was conducted when Knott was a PhD student, supervised by Lewis with Williams as a second supervisor and link clinical psychologist. Lewis and Knott wrote the paper. RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Psychology|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||Autism - Siblings - Social interaction - Longitudinal studies|
|Subjects:||B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology|
|Departments:||Faculty of Science and Technology > Psychology|
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Sociology
|Deposited On:||10 Mar 2008 14:49|
|Last Modified:||02 May 2016 01:12|
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