Lord C, Schopler E, Revicki D
J Autism Dev Disord. 1982 Dec;12(4):317-30. doi: 10.1007/BF01538320.
Comparisons were made between male and female children with autism, 384 boys and 91 girls, aged 3 years to 8 years, on nonverbal measures of intelligence, adaptive functioning, receptive vocabulary, perception, and eye-hand integration, and on ratings of affect, play, and relating and human interest. Males showed more advanced performances on eye-hand integration and perception skills on the Psychoeducational Profile (PEP) and had higher nonverbal IQs social quotients, and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) IQs than females. When nonverbal IQ was controlled, the main effect of sex remained; however, sex differences on PPVT scores and on eye-hand integration and perception scale disappeared. Males showed more unusual visual responses and less appropriate, more stereotypic play than females. These results are discussed in terms of hypotheses concerning sex differences in genetic thresholds and in hemispheric lateralization.
对384名男孩和91名女孩（年龄在3岁至8岁之间）患有自闭症的男女儿童进行了比较，比较内容包括非言语智力测试、适应性功能、接受性词汇、感知以及手眼协调能力，还有情感、游戏、社交关系和兴趣方面的评分。在心理教育剖面图（PEP）上，男性在手眼协调和感知技能方面表现更先进，并且在非言语智商、社交商数以及皮博迪图片词汇测试（PPVT）智商方面比女性更高。当控制非言语智商时，性别主效应仍然存在；然而，在PPVT分数以及手眼协调和感知量表上的性别差异消失了。与女性相比，男性表现出更异常的视觉反应以及更不合适、更刻板的游戏行为。这些结果根据关于遗传阈值和半球侧化性别差异的假设进行了讨论。
