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Autistic Spectrum Conditions
Published in Cathy Laver-Bradbury, Margaret J.J. Thompson, Christopher Gale, Christine M. Hooper, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2021
There are many screening instruments including: Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT), designed for GPs and health visitors, a quickly administered questionnaire to screen for autistic traits at very young ages during routine clinic visits. Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ), a brief structured list of statements, rated true or false. A score is calculated estimating the likelihood of positive diagnosis.Childhood Autism Screening Tool (CAST), similar to the above.
Developmental Social Neuroscience and the Autism Spectrum of Disorders
Published in Christopher J. Nicholls, Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents, 2018
Given the delineation of these diagnostic criteria, consensual diagnostic strategies have begun to emerge. It has become common that most children with ASD are first identified by primary care physician screening. The Centers for Disease Control suggests but does not endorse multiple tools for pediatric autism screening, including the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (Ages & Stages Questionnaire, 2017); the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales (Wetherby & Prizant, 2002); the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers-revised (Robins, Fein, Barton, & Green, 2001); and other screening tools that focus upon the symptoms of autism in toddlers and young children (CDC, 2017). If the outcome of this screening process suggests the possible presence of ASD, the CDC recommends a more comprehensive evaluation be performed by a child development professional.
The medical context
Published in James Law, Alison Parkinson, Rashmin Tamhne, David Hall, Communication Difficulties in Childhood, 2017
Early diagnosis of autism (seeChapter 11) has many potential benefits and population screening tests are therefore being developed. Results of the evaluation of a recently developed screening test, Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT),9 which is applied at 18 months are soon to be published. CHAT has the merit of bringing the issue of social communication in young children to the attention of health professionals and parents. Whether it is robust enough in its present form to be a screening test for universal application is not certain.
“Pray to all four directions”: a qualitative study of syncretic care seeking by Vietnamese families for their children with autism spectrum disorder
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2023
In Vietnam, ASD, or tự kỷ was only recently recognised as a disorder in the late 1990s. A recent epidemiological study indicated that the prevalence of ASD among children in Vietnam from 18 to 30 months is 0.75% [25]. There remain very few studies of ASD in Vietnam [25–31]. Many studies tend to be psychological or clinical in nature, such as a study which examined the cognitive ability of children with ASD [29], a Ph.D. study on screening children by Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (MCHAT)-23, clinical features of children with ASD and the effectiveness of early intervention [26,30]. One cross-sectional self-administered survey with 254 parents of children with developmental disorders, including children with ASD, was conducted in late 2009 and early 2010, to explore the needs of these children and families [31]. Other recent studies focus on piloting intervention models for children under 6 years-old [32]. Most applied research remains in the “grey” literature and is disseminated in national workshops and conferences.
Evaluation of IL1B rs1143634 and IL6 rs1800796 Polymorphisms with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Turkish Children
Published in Immunological Investigations, 2022
Kubra Cigdem Pekkoc Uyanik, Aysel Kalayci Yigin, Burak Dogangun, Mehmet Seven
The study group consists of 179 individuals. The cases (n = 95) were 2–10 years old children diagnosed with ASD from Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine (CMF) Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The cases were diagnosed as ASD according to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) and screened the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) scale. Eleven cases had a family history of autism. In the case group, there were 2 pairs of siblings, one of which were dizygotic twins. Patients were excluded from the study if their primary diagnosis was not ASD and if they had a history of neurologic or medical disorder that would affect their neuropsychologic functions. Age-matched, unrelated healthy controls (n = 84) were selected from the Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, CMF, Department of Pediatrics.
Comparison of tidos with m-chat for screening autism spectrum disorder
Published in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2018
Seda Topçu, Betül Ulukol, Özgür Öner, Filiz Şimşek Orhon, Sevgi Başkan
There are many developmental screening tools available to practitioners [8]. Those screening tests are appropriate for young children with ASD who had language and cognitive delays. However, those became problematic for children with other developmental problems and are associated with high false-positive screening results. Parent-report tools often have the advantage of being easy, inexpensive, and practical in the office setting. Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) is one of those parent-report tools and widely used internationally for screening ASD. It was firstly modified from Checklist for Autism in Toddlers in 2001 [9] and revised with additional follow-up test in 2014 [10]. However, M-CHAT has high false-positive screening results for screening ASD and it leads to increase the concerns of the parents. In different countries, by the validation of M-CHAT, the outcomes for the M-CHAT for screening ASD were reported; Baduel et al. [11] from France and Yıkgeç [12] from Turkey reported that the use of as a screening tool of M-CHAT for ASD was not appropriate because of the high false-positive results of the test.