title: Children with a pervasive developmental disorder, children with a language disorder and normally developing children in situations with high- and low-level involvement of the caregiver.
abstract: The social behaviour of low-functioning children with a Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD), high-functioning children with a PDD, children with a Language Disorder (LD) and normally developing children (ND) was investigated in a playroom session while they were interacting with one of their parents. High-functioning children with a PDD were found to differ from the other groups in social responsivity. Low-functioning children with a PDD differed from high-functioning children with a PDD in the total number of social bids, type of social bids, number of looks at parent and social responsivity. When parents structured the behaviour of their children, this resulted in an increase in number of social bids and looks in the low-functioning children with PDD.
authors.affiliation: Rudolf Magnus Institute for Neurosciences, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Willemsen-Swinkels
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Buitelaar
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: van Engeland
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012016:Reference Values; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior