Parental Awareness of Sexual Experience in Adolescent Boys With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Parent report and adolescent self-report data on lifetime sexual experience in adolescents with ASD were compared in 43 parent-adolescent dyads. Parents tended to underestimate the lifetime sexual experience of their sons, particularly solo sexual experiences such as masturbation and experience with...

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Autores principales: Dewinter, J., Vermeiren, R., Vanwesenbeeck, I., Van Nieuwenhuizen, Ch.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2015
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4724358/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26481386
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2622-3
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description Parent report and adolescent self-report data on lifetime sexual experience in adolescents with ASD were compared in 43 parent-adolescent dyads. Parents tended to underestimate the lifetime sexual experience of their sons, particularly solo sexual experiences such as masturbation and experience with orgasm. Parental underestimation and unawareness of adolescents’ sexual experience may influence communication and education about sex and sexuality in families. These findings have implications for the interpretation of earlier research, based on parent and caregiver reports, on sexuality in adolescents with ASD.
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spelling pubmed-47243582016-02-02 Parental Awareness of Sexual Experience in Adolescent Boys With Autism Spectrum Disorder Dewinter, J. Vermeiren, R. Vanwesenbeeck, I. Van Nieuwenhuizen, Ch. J Autism Dev Disord Brief Communication Parent report and adolescent self-report data on lifetime sexual experience in adolescents with ASD were compared in 43 parent-adolescent dyads. Parents tended to underestimate the lifetime sexual experience of their sons, particularly solo sexual experiences such as masturbation and experience with orgasm. Parental underestimation and unawareness of adolescents’ sexual experience may influence communication and education about sex and sexuality in families. These findings have implications for the interpretation of earlier research, based on parent and caregiver reports, on sexuality in adolescents with ASD. Springer US 2015-10-19 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4724358/ /pubmed/26481386 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2622-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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