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ArticleAutism : the international journal of research and practice2020

Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective.

Catherine J Crompton, Danielle Ropar, Claire Vm Evans-Williams, Emma G Flynn, Sue Fletcher-Watson

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Article in Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 177 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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177 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Catherine J CromptonThe University of Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5280-1596
Danielle RoparThe University of Nottingham, UK.
Claire Vm Evans-WilliamsThe Autism Academy, UK.
Emma G FlynnQueen's University Belfast, UK.
Sue Fletcher-WatsonThe University of Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2688-1734

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

lay abstractSharing information with other people relies on the ability to communicate well. Autism is defined clinically by deficits in social communication. It may therefore be expected that autistic people find it difficult to share information with other people. We wanted to find out whether this was the case, and whether it was different when autistic people were sharing information with other autistic people or with non-autistic people. We recruited nine groups, each with eight people. In three of the groups, everyone was autistic; in three of the groups, everyone was non-autistic; and three of the groups were mixed groups where half the group was autistic and half the group was non-autistic. We told one person in each group a story and asked them to share it with another person, and for that person to share it again and so on, until everyone in the group had heard the story. We then looked at how many details of the story had been shared at each stage. We found that autistic people share information with other autistic people as well as non-autistic people do with other non-autistic people. However, when there are mixed groups of autistic and non-autistic people, much less information is shared. Participants were also asked how they felt they had got on with the other person in the interaction. The people in the mixed groups also experienced lower rapport with the person they were sharing the story with. This finding is important as it shows that autistic people have the skills to share information well with one another and experience good rapport, and that there are selective problems when autistic and non-autistic people are interacting.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderCommunicationHumansInterpersonal RelationsPeer Groupadultscommunication and languagepsychological theories of autismsocial cognition and social behaviour

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PMID32431157
PMCPMC7545656

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