ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2017
Comparison of Autism Screening in Younger and Older Toddlers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Comparative screening accuracy of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised with Follow-Up (M-Chat-R/F) for early autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review.Family medicine and community health · 2026Pooled it
- Reducing Barriers to Autism Screening in Community Primary Care: A Pragmatic Trial Using Web-Based Screening.Academic pediatrics · 2022Trial
- Exploring the Potential of Parent Report for Autism/Developmental Screening at the 18-Month Visit.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers in a Neonatal High-Risk Population.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Brief Report: Single and Repeat Screening with the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers-Revised in Young Children at Higher Likelihood for Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Enhancing early autism prediction based on electronic records using clinical narratives.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2023Article
- Tools for early screening of autism spectrum disorders in primary health care - a scoping review.BMC primary care · 2022Article
- What are we optimizing for in autism screening? Examination of algorithmic changes in the M-CHAT.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Autism screening at 18 months of age: a comparison of the Q-CHAT-10 and M-CHAT screeners.Molecular autism · 2022Article
- The Early Screening for Autism and Communication Disorders: Field-testing an autism-specific screening tool for children 12 to 36 months of age.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2021Article
- General paediatric practice in autism spectrum disorder screening in Ontario, Canada: Opportunities for improvement.Paediatrics & child health · 2021Article
- Incremental Utility of 24-Month Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening After Negative 18-Month Screening.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Critical reappraisal of mechanistic links of copy number variants to dimensional constructs of neuropsychiatric disorders in mouse models.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2018Review
- Use of an Online Clinical Process Support System as an Aid to Identification and Management of Developmental and Mental Health Problems.Current developmental disorders reports · 2017Article
- Analysis of Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) Screening for Children Less Than Age 4.Current developmental disorders reports · 2017Review
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Abstract
This study examined the effect of age at completion of an autism screening test on item failure rates contrasting older (>20 months) with younger (<20 months) toddlers in a community primary care sample of 73,564 children. Items related to social development were categorized into one of three age sets per criteria from Inada et al. (Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 4(4):605-611, 2010). Younger toddlers produced higher rates of item failure than older toddlers and items in both of the later acquired item sets had higher probability rates for failure than the earliest acquired item set (prior to 8 months). Use of the same items and the same scoring throughout the target age range for autism screening may not be the best strategy for identifying the youngest toddlers at risk for autism.
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