TY - JOUR
T1 - Sitting on the Sidelines
T2 - Disparities in Social, Recreational, and Community Participation Among Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
AU - Budavari, Alexa C.
AU - Pas, Elise T.
AU - Azad, Gazi F.
AU - Volk, Heather E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - Participation in extracurricular activities and community involvement during secondary school is important for the healthy social, emotional, mental, and physical development of adolescents, especially those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The current study utilized three waves of data (2016, 2017, and 2018) from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) to examine disparities in extracurricular participation among 12- to 17-year old adolescents with ASD. Across the three waves, data demonstrate clear sociodemographic disparities among adolescents with ASD. These disparities were more evident in adolescents with caregivers that had less education and lower household income, as well as males. These disparities suggest a continued need for targeted interventions to promote engagement among adolescents with ASD to narrow this social disparity gap.
AB - Participation in extracurricular activities and community involvement during secondary school is important for the healthy social, emotional, mental, and physical development of adolescents, especially those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The current study utilized three waves of data (2016, 2017, and 2018) from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) to examine disparities in extracurricular participation among 12- to 17-year old adolescents with ASD. Across the three waves, data demonstrate clear sociodemographic disparities among adolescents with ASD. These disparities were more evident in adolescents with caregivers that had less education and lower household income, as well as males. These disparities suggest a continued need for targeted interventions to promote engagement among adolescents with ASD to narrow this social disparity gap.
KW - Autism Spectrum Disorder
KW - Community involvement
KW - Extracurricular participation
KW - National Survey of Children’s Health
KW - Sociodemographic disparities
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U2 - 10.1007/s10803-021-05216-0
DO - 10.1007/s10803-021-05216-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 34331628
AN - SCOPUS:85111542714
SN - 0162-3257
VL - 52
SP - 3399
EP - 3412
JO - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
JF - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
IS - 8
ER -