Social communication difficulties and autism in previously institutionalized children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the risk of difficulties with social communication and restricted/repetitive behaviors as well as the rate of autism in children institutionalized in early infancy and to assess the impact of a foster care intervention on ameliorating this risk.

Method

Children abandoned at birth and raised in institutions in Bucharest, Romania were randomly assigned to a care-as-usual group (institutional care, CAUG), or placed in family-centered foster care (FCG) as part of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP). At approximately 10 years of age, the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) was administered to caregivers of children in both groups as well as to parents of a typically developing community sample (Never-Institutionalized group [NIG]) residing

SUBMITTER: Levin AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4404759 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature