Social Language Use in Parents of Autistic Individuals

Overview

Journal Psychol Med

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialty Psychology

Date 1992 Feb 1

PMID 1574562

Citations 121

Authors

R Landa

J Piven

M M Wzorek

J O Gayle

G A Chase

S E Folstein

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Abstract

Social language use (pragmatics) in parents of autistic individuals and controls was compared. Autism parents displayed atypical pragmatic behaviours more often than controls. Preliminary factor analysis suggested three parsimonious groupings of pragmatic abnormalities: Disinhibited Social Communication, Awkward/Inadequate Expression, and Odd Verbal Interaction. The pragmatic features observed in some autism parents are milder but conceptually similar to the social language deficits of autism. Possible reasons for familial aggregation of pragmatic language deficits are discussed.

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