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Yonat Rum; Ofer Golan; Carrie Allison; Paula Smith; Simon R. White; Simon Baron-Cohen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study examined whether autistic people with siblings score higher on measures of empathy than those without siblings. Cohorts of autistic children (n = 939; mean age = 7.35 years (SD = 2.15)) and autistic adults (n = 736; mean age = 37 years (SD = 12.39)) from the Cambridge Autism Research Database (CARD) were each divided into two groups:…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Empathy
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Lilas Gurgand; Hugo Peyre; Jean Ecalle; Jean-Paul Fischer; Franck Ramus – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2024
We studied the effect of the number and characteristics of siblings (sex, age) on school achievement in several grades (kindergarten, first grade, and fifth grade), in two large French cohorts, with more than 16,000 children. Running linear mixed-effects models, we find that, independently of socioeconomic status, having more siblings is…
Descriptors: Siblings, Sibling Relationship, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries