Autistic Traits and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Clinical Validity of Two Measures Presuming a Continuum of Social Communication Skills

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 s...

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Autores principales: Bölte, Sven, Westerwald, Eva, Holtmann, Martin, Freitag, Christine, Poustka, Fritz
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3005113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20422277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-010-1024-9
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author Bölte, Sven
Westerwald, Eva
Holtmann, Martin
Freitag, Christine
Poustka, Fritz
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description 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 .74 to .80 and specificities of .69 to 1.00 for autism. Sensitivities were .85 to .90 and specificities .28 to.82 for the SCDC. Correlations with the ADI-R, ADOS and SCQ were higher for the SRS than for the SCDC. The SCDC seems superior to the SRS to screen for unspecific social and communicative deficits including autism. The SRS appears more suitable than the SCDC in clinical settings and for specific autism screening.
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spelling pubmed-30051132011-01-19 Autistic Traits and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Clinical Validity of Two Measures Presuming a Continuum of Social Communication Skills Bölte, Sven Westerwald, Eva Holtmann, Martin Freitag, Christine Poustka, Fritz J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper 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 .74 to .80 and specificities of .69 to 1.00 for autism. Sensitivities were .85 to .90 and specificities .28 to.82 for the SCDC. Correlations with the ADI-R, ADOS and SCQ were higher for the SRS than for the SCDC. The SCDC seems superior to the SRS to screen for unspecific social and communicative deficits including autism. The SRS appears more suitable than the SCDC in clinical settings and for specific autism screening. Springer US 2010-04-27 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3005113/ /pubmed/20422277 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-010-1024-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Bölte, Sven
Westerwald, Eva
Holtmann, Martin
Freitag, Christine
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Autistic Traits and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Clinical Validity of Two Measures Presuming a Continuum of Social Communication Skills
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title_full_unstemmed Autistic Traits and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Clinical Validity of Two Measures Presuming a Continuum of Social Communication Skills
title_short Autistic Traits and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Clinical Validity of Two Measures Presuming a Continuum of Social Communication Skills
title_sort autistic traits and autism spectrum disorders: the clinical validity of two measures presuming a continuum of social communication skills
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3005113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20422277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-010-1024-9
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