Liangshan Dong, Rong Fan, Bo Shen, Jin Bo, Yanli Pang, Yu Song
A comparative study on fundamental movement skills among children with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing children aged 7-10
Frontiers in psychology
background social communication sc includes use interpretation verbal nonverbal messages within social context thus requires knowledge language social communication skills essential connecting engaging others sc deficits often associated emotional behavioral problems lack feasible instruments assessing sc skills individuals intellectual disability id methods questionnaire social communication adults id qscid comprising 20 likertscaled items developed completed behalf participants n 52 three austrian therapeutic living communities people id deafness living workingfacility key caregivers sample adults hearing loss considered ideal development measure sc restricted specific communication mode overly related language skills results preliminary results showed high construct validity correlations high sc language social skills severity autism spectrum disorder asd moderate sc adaptive skills nonverbal intelligence expected low sc motor skills interrater reliability found good least acceptable items total raw scores welldistributed whole rangecutoffs based 10th 20th percentile suggested identify atypical borderline sc skills caregiver feedback completeness data suggest questionnaire highly feasible conclusion questionnaire social communication adults id easytouse caregiverreported questionnaire use individuals mild severe forms id initial testing validity looks promising validation populations typical hearing required due substantial correlations sc structural language skills calculation specific sc cutoffs different levels linguistic skills considered sufficient data available