school aged 6 and 16 (115 18 (parents of controls only AS from typically children with females) completed SVS) developing AS Parents of 23 typically Demographic Social vulnerability was Examine a new developing children questionnaire found to be negatively measure (Social aged between 6 and 14 correlated with social skills Childhood Vulnerability (15 males, 8 in children with AS Asperger Scale) females) Syndrome Test Social vulnerability was (CAST, Scott et al., strongly negatively 2002) correlated with bullying in children with AS Spence Social Skills (SSSQ-P, Spence, 1995) The Peer Relations Questionnaire for Parents (PRQ, Rigby & Slee, 1993) The Social Vulnerability
school aged children with AS Examine a new measure (Social Vulnerability Scale) 6 and 16 (115 18 females) Parents of 23 typically developing children aged between 6 and 14 (15 males, 8 females) (parents of controls only completed SVS) Demographic questionnaire Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test (CAST, Scott et al., 2002) Spence Social Skills (SSSQ-P, Spence, 1995) The Peer Relations Questionnaire for Parents (PRQ, Rigby & Slee, 1993) The Social Vulnerability AS from typically developing Social vulnerability was found to be negatively correlated with social skills in children with AS Social vulnerability was strongly negatively correlated with bullying in children with AS