Developmental Assessment of the School-Aged Child with Developmental Disabilities by M. S. Thambirajah

Author:M. S. Thambirajah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Broader phenotype autism

Evidence from twin and family studies suggests that the genetic liability to autism may be expressed through personality and language characteristics in relatives of autistic children that are qualitatively similar, but more subtly expressed than those defining the full syndrome (Pickles et al. 2000). This increased prevalence of autistic traits in relatives of autistic subjects has been called ‘broader phenotype autism’.

Another way of conceptualising the autism spectrum is to view the conditions on a two dimensional space that represents impairments in the dimensions of sociability and communication. Various autistic conditions fall along the two dimensions as shown in Figure 7.3.

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