TY - JOUR
T1 - Verbal Ability and Psychiatric Symptoms in Clinically Referred Inpatient and Outpatient Youth with ASD
AU - For The Autism And Developmental Disorders Inpatient Research Collaborative (Addirc)
AU - Lerner, Matthew D.
AU - Mazefsky, Carla A.
AU - Weber, Rebecca J.
AU - Transue, Emilie
AU - Siegel, Matthew
AU - Gadow, Kenneth D.
AU - Erickson, Craig
AU - Gabriels, Robin L.
AU - Kaplan, Desmond
AU - Morrow, Eric M.
AU - Righi, Giulia
AU - Santangelo, Susan L.
AU - Wink, Logan
AU - Benevides, Jill
AU - Beresford, Carol
AU - Best, Carrie
AU - Bowen, Katie
AU - Dechant, Briar
AU - Flis, Tom
AU - Gastgeb, Holly
AU - Geer, Angela
AU - Hagopian, Louis
AU - Handen, Benjamin
AU - Klever, Adam
AU - Lubetsky, Martin
AU - MacKenzie, Kristen
AU - Meservy, Zenoa
AU - McGonigle, John
AU - McGuire, Kelly
AU - McNeill, Faith
AU - Palka, Tamara
AU - Pedapati, Ernest
AU - Peura, Christine
AU - Pierri, Joseph
AU - Rogers, Christie
AU - Rossman, Brad
AU - Ruberg, Jennifer
AU - Sannar, Elise
AU - Small, Cathleen
AU - Smith, Kahsi A.
AU - Stuckey, Nicole
AU - Troen, Brittany
AU - Tylenda, Barbara
AU - Verdi, Mary
AU - Vezzoli, Jessica
AU - Williams, Deanna
AU - Williams, Diane
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
PY - 2018/11/1
Y1 - 2018/11/1
N2 - Youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience high rates of psychiatric symptoms, but the relation between verbal ability and psychiatric symptoms is unknown. This study utilized a large sample of clinically referred inpatient and outpatient youth with ASD to compare psychiatric comorbidity between verbal and minimally-verbal youth, adjusting for nonverbal IQ, age, and ASD symptom severity. Results indicated that verbal youth were more likely to present with and meet clinical cutoffs for depression and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms, with greater impairment associated with depression. Youth in inpatient settings had greater symptom severity and impairment across almost all psychiatric comorbidities. These results present the most direct estimate to date of the association between verbal ability and psychiatric comorbidity in ASD.
AB - Youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience high rates of psychiatric symptoms, but the relation between verbal ability and psychiatric symptoms is unknown. This study utilized a large sample of clinically referred inpatient and outpatient youth with ASD to compare psychiatric comorbidity between verbal and minimally-verbal youth, adjusting for nonverbal IQ, age, and ASD symptom severity. Results indicated that verbal youth were more likely to present with and meet clinical cutoffs for depression and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms, with greater impairment associated with depression. Youth in inpatient settings had greater symptom severity and impairment across almost all psychiatric comorbidities. These results present the most direct estimate to date of the association between verbal ability and psychiatric comorbidity in ASD.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10803-017-3344-5
DO - 10.1007/s10803-017-3344-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 29038930
AN - SCOPUS:85031922166
SN - 0162-3257
VL - 48
SP - 3689
EP - 3701
JO - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
JF - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
IS - 11
ER -