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Psychological Adjustment and Sibling Relationships in Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Environmental Stressors and the Broad Autism Phenotype
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Petalas, Michael A.; Hastings, Richard P.; Nash, Susie; Hall, Louise M.; Joannidi, Helen; Dowey, Alan – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
Research with siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) suggests that they may be at increased risk for behavioural and emotional problems and relatively poor sibling relationships. This study investigated a diathesis-stress model, whereby the presence of Broad Autism Phenotype features in the typically developing siblings might…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Siblings, Autism, Sibling Relationship
Emotional and Behavioural Adjustment in Siblings of Children with Intellectual Disability with and without Autism
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Petalas, Michael A.; Hastings, Richard P.; Nash, Susie; Lloyd, Tracey; Dowey, Alan – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2009
Siblings of children with autism may be at greater risk for psychological problems than siblings of children with another disability or of typically developing (TD) children. However, it is difficult to establish whether autism or the presence of intellectual disability (ID) explains the findings in previous research. Mothers rated the emotional…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Child Behavior, Siblings, Mental Retardation