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November 18, 2025Autism Research

Exploring Pragmatic Abilities in Sisters of Autistic Individuals: A Methodological Solution to Female Autism Research

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MBMarie BelengerCDCharlotte DumontMKMikhail Kissine

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Overview

This research compares pragmatic abilities in adolescent females, indicating a need for nuanced understanding of autism.

Key Points

  • To investigate the pragmatic abilities of sisters of autistic individuals and how they compare across different groups.
  • Compared pragmatic abilities in 76 adolescent females aged 9 to 16
  • Included participants from three groups: autistic, nonautistic, and sisters of autistic individuals
  • Used a semistructured spoken narrative task and caregiver questionnaires
  • Sisters showed more pragmatic-related difficulties than nonautistic participants but fewer than autistic participants
  • Narratives of sisters were similar to nonautistic participants, apart from fewer causal explanations
  • Individual profiles of sisters varied widely, indicating a heterogeneous group

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Belenger et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6924feebc0ce034ddc35199dhttps://doi.org/10.1002/aur.70147
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