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Brief Report: The Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Social Communication Checklist
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Wainer, Allison L.; Berger, Natalie I.; Ingersoll, Brooke R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
Despite the expansion of early intervention approaches for young children with ASD, investigators have struggled to identify measures capable of assessing social communication change in response to these interventions. Addressing recent calls for efficient, sensitive, and reliable social communication measures, the current paper outlines the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Communication Disorders
Autistic Traits and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Clinical Validity of Two Measures Presuming a Continuum of Social Communication Skills
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Bolte, Sven; Westerwald, Eva; Holtmann, Martin; Freitag, Christine; Poustka, Fritz – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
Research indicates that autism is the extreme end of a continuously distributed trait. The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) and the Social and Communication Disorders Checklist (SCDC) aim to assess autistic traits. The objective of this study was to compare their clinical validity. The SRS showed sensitivities of 0.74 to 0.80 and specificities of…
Descriptors: Autism, Validity, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills
Brief Report: No Association between Parental Age and Extreme Social-Communicative Autistic Traits in the General Population
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Robinson, Elise B.; Munir, Kerim; McCormick, Marie C.; Koenen, Karestan C.; Santangelo, Susan L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
This is the first investigation of the relationship between parental age and extreme social-communicative autistic traits in the general population. The parents of 5,246 children in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) completed the Social and Communication Disorders Checklist (SCDC). The association between parental age…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Children, Parents, Age Differences