Screening for Autism with the SRS and SCQ: Variations across Demographic, Developmental and Behavioral Factors in Preschool Children

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• Alternative Title:
  J Autism Dev Disord
• Personal Author:
  Moody, Eric J. ; Reyes, Nuri ; Ledbetter, Caroline ; Wiggins, Lisa ; DiGuiseppi, Carolyn ; Alexander, Amira ; Jackson, Shardel ; Lee, Li-Ching ; Levy, Susan E. ; Rosenberg, Steven A.
• Description:
  The Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) and the Social Responsiveness Scales (SRS) are commonly used screeners for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Data from the Study to Explore Early Development were used to examine variations in the performance of these instruments by child characteristics and family demographics. For both instruments, specificity decreased as maternal education and family income decreased. Specificity was decreased with lower developmental functioning and higher behavior problems. This suggests that the false positive rates of the SRS and the SCQ are associated with child characteristics and family demographic factors. There is a need for ASD screeners that perform well across socioeconomic and child characteristics. Clinicians should be mindful of differential performance of these instruments in various groups of children.
• Subjects:
  Autistic Disorder Child Child, Preschool Female Humans Infant Male Parents Sensitivity And Specificity Socioeconomic Factors Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Source:
  J Autism Dev Disord. 47(11):3550-3561.
• Pubmed ID:
  28856480
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5743015
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U10 DD000180/DD/NCBDD CDC HHS/United States ; U10DD000183/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)/United States ; U10DD000180/National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities/United States ; U10DD000184/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)/United States ; U10 DD000181/DD/NCBDD CDC HHS/United States ; U10DD000182/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)/United States ; U10 DD000184/DD/NCBDD CDC HHS/United States ; U01 DD000498/DD/NCBDD CDC HHS/United States ; CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States ; U10 DD000182/DD/NCBDD CDC HHS/United States ; U10DD000181/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)/United States ; U10 DD000183/DD/NCBDD CDC HHS/United States ; U10DD000498/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)/United States
• Volume:
  47
• Issue:
  11
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:53b90bf6af5b898bc1bb5ce13ba53516a36b288de92ba5017870e5362f90a3bc
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/50624/cdc_50624_DS1.pdf
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