autism | brother | sibling | sister | social skills
Brothers and sisters will naturally teach social skills to children with autism.
This study looked at 16 children with autism or Down syndrome to see if their siblings helped them to learn social skills. They studied the children for 12 months. The authors found that the neurotypical (non-autistic) siblings controlled (stage managed) the social aspect of the relationship. They found that children with Down syndrome were more likely to copy the neurotypical sibling than were children with autism. The children with autism did learn, however, to copy their siblings and play with their siblings.
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