The Broad Autism Phenotype: Birth Order as it Relates to Pragmatic Language and Self-Competence in Siblings
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Griffin, Sarah
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
- Abstract
- One in 68 children in the United States were diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in 2014 (CDC, 2014). This is a 55% increase from 2002, in which 1 in 150 children in the U.S. were diagnosed. Using U.S. census data, this means that around 300,000 parents and siblings are living with the challenge of raising and growing up alongside a child with autism. This study delves into the sibling experience, examining birth order as it relates to pragmatic language functioning and self-competence in typically developing siblings of children with autism. There was no effect of birth order on the pragmatic language subset of the BAPQ; however, there was a significant negative correlation between pragmatic language scores, where higher scores indicate lower pragmatic function, and parent-reported scores of their typically-developing child’s self-competence. Together, these findings suggest that typically-developing siblings who don’t use social language as proficiently as other children may have lower levels of self-competence and be targeted for increased support.
- Date of publication
- spring 2015
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Reznick, J. Steven
- Degree
- Bachelor of Science
- Honors level
- Highest Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 24
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