Wallace Gregory L, Dudley Katerina, Anthony Laura, Pugliese Cara E, Orionzi Bako, Clasen Liv, Lee Nancy Raitano, Giedd Jay N, Martin Alex, Raznahan Armin, Kenworthy Lauren
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The George Washington University, 2115 G Street NW, Room 201, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, MD, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2017 Feb;47(2):472-479. doi: 10.1007/s10803-016-2972-5.
Although social-communication difficulties and repetitive behaviors are hallmark features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and persist across the lifespan, very few studies have compared age-related differences in these behaviors between youth with ASD and same-age typically developing (TD) peers. We examined this issue using SRS-2 (Social Responsiveness Scale-Second Edition) measures of social-communicative functioning and repetitive behaviors in a stratified cross-sectional sample of 324 youth with ASD in the absence of intellectual disability, and 438 TD youth (aged 4-29 years). An age-by-group interaction emerged indicating that TD youth exhibited age-related improvements in social-communication scores while the ASD group demonstrated age-related declines in these scores. This suggests that adolescents/adults with ASD may fall increasingly behind their same-age peers in social-communicative skills.
尽管社交沟通困难和重复行为是自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的标志性特征且贯穿一生，但很少有研究比较患有ASD的青少年与同龄正常发育（TD）同伴在这些行为上的年龄相关差异。我们使用社交反应量表第二版（SRS - 2）对社交沟通功能和重复行为进行测量，在一个分层横断面样本中研究了这个问题，该样本包括324名无智力障碍的患有ASD的青少年以及438名TD青少年（年龄在4至29岁之间）。出现了年龄与组别的交互作用，表明TD青少年在社交沟通得分上呈现出与年龄相关的改善，而ASD组在这些得分上则呈现出与年龄相关的下降。这表明患有ASD的青少年/成年人在社交沟通技能方面可能会越来越落后于同龄同伴。
