How to identify Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in children? Autism Symptom Dimensions Questionnaire (ASDQ) can be used as a free and reliable tool to identify autism in children.
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Reliable Tool to Identify Autism in Children
Research on the development and validation of the Autism Symptom Dimension Questionnaire (ASDQ) is published in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology.‘Autism Symptom Dimensions Questionnaire (ASDQ) is a new freely available questionnaire of measures of autism symptoms which may help identify Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in children and monitor symptoms over time.’
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After development of an initial 33-item version, a revised 39-item version of the ASDQ was applied to 1,467 children and adolescents, including 104 with autism spectrum disorder. Read More..
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The questionnaire was found to be reliable and valid for evaluating autism symptoms across age, sex, race, and ethnicity.
“Having a freely available and modern measure of autism symptoms can greatly improve clinical practice and advance research into autism spectrum disorder,” said corresponding author Thomas W. Frazier, Ph.D., of John Carroll University.
Source-Eurekalert