Volkmar F R, Carter A, Sparrow S S, Cicchetti D V
Child Study Center, New Haven, CT 06510.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1993 May;32(3):627-32. doi: 10.1097/00004583-199305000-00020.
This study was concerned with the development of quantitative measures of social development in autism.
Multiple regression equations predicting social, communicative, and daily living skills on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales were derived from a large, normative sample and applied to groups of autistic and nonautistic, developmentally disordered children. Predictive models included either mental or chronological age and other relevant variables.
Social skills in the autistic group were more than two standard deviations below those predicted by their mental age; an index derived from the ratio of actual to predicted social skills correctly classified 94% of the autistic and 92% of the nonautistic, developmentally disordered cases.
The findings are consistent with the idea that social disturbance is central in the definition of autism. The approach used in this study has potential advantages for providing more precise measures of social development in autism.
本研究关注自闭症社会发展定量测量方法的开发。
从一个大型标准化样本中推导出预测《维兰德适应行为量表》中社交、沟通和日常生活技能的多元回归方程，并将其应用于自闭症和非自闭症发育障碍儿童群体。预测模型包括心理年龄或实际年龄以及其他相关变量。
自闭症组的社交技能比根据其心理年龄预测的水平低两个多标准差；从实际社交技能与预测社交技能的比率得出的一个指数正确地将94%的自闭症病例和92%的非自闭症发育障碍病例分类。
这些发现与自闭症定义中社交障碍是核心这一观点一致。本研究中使用的方法在提供更精确的自闭症社会发展测量方面具有潜在优势。
