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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Feb
Pages: 10
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Social Communication Competence and Functional Adaptation in a General Population of Children: Preliminary Evidence for Sex-by-Verbal IQ Differential Risk
Skuse, David H.; Mandy, William D.; Steer, Colin; Miller, Laura L.; Lawrence, Kate; Amond, Alan; Golding, Jean
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, v48 n2 p128 Feb 2009
Results from a Social and Communication Disorders Checklist finds that the scores were continuously distributed in the general population and that boys had mean scores 30 percent higher than girls. Above-average verbal IQ appears to protect female subjects from social communication impairments but not in male subjects. Participants to the study were from Avon, England.
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Disorders, Intelligence Quotient, Gender Differences, Children, Adjustment (to Environment), Risk, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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