Mosconi Matthew W, Steven Reznick J, Mesibov Gary, Piven Joseph
Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2009 Feb;39(2):242-50. doi: 10.1007/s10803-008-0620-4. Epub 2008 Jul 22.
Children with autism show deficits in social referencing, joint attention, orienting to their names, and social smiling as early as the first year of life. The present study describes the development of the Social Orienting Continuum and Response Scale (SOC-RS), a quantitative scale assessing each of these behaviors during the course of video-recorded Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) sessions. The SOC-RS was shown to be reliable and valid, and when applied to a longitudinal sample of children studied at 2 and 4 years of age, was shown to be sensitive to decreased levels of social referencing, joint attention, orienting to name, and social smiling in autism. The implications of these findings and potential applications of the SOC-RS are discussed.
患有自闭症的儿童早在一岁时就表现出在社会参照、共同注意、对自己名字的反应以及社交微笑方面的缺陷。本研究描述了社会定向连续体与反应量表(SOC-RS)的开发过程,这是一种定量量表,用于在视频记录的自闭症诊断观察量表(ADOS)评估过程中对上述每种行为进行评估。研究表明,SOC-RS是可靠且有效的,当应用于对2岁和4岁儿童进行纵向研究的样本时,它能够灵敏地反映出自闭症儿童在社会参照、共同注意、对名字的反应以及社交微笑方面水平的下降。本文还讨论了这些研究结果的意义以及SOC-RS的潜在应用。