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THURSDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly half of adolescents
with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are victims of bullying,
according to research published online Sept. 3 in the Archives
of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Paul R. Sterzing, Ph.D.,
M.S.S.W., of Washington University in St. Louis, and colleagues
conducted a nationally representative survey of 920 parents of
adolescents with an ASD to compare rates of bullying with that
of adolescents with other developmental disabilities, and to
identify correlates of victimization and perpetration. Overall,
46.3 percent of adolescents with an ASD had been the victim of
bullying (compared with 10.6 percent of the general population),
14.8 percent were the perpetrator, and 8.9 percent reported
being both the perpetr