ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2019
The Need for a Developmentally Based Measure of Social Communication Skills.
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- Parent and caregiver report questionnaires for children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2026Review
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- Bias in measurement of autism symptoms by spoken language level and non-verbal mental age in minimally verbal children with neurodevelopmental disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Mental State Language Use in Children with Down Syndrome and the Role of Caregivers.Seminars in speech and language · 2021Review
- Drug development for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Progress, challenges, and future directions.European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Review
- Extracting Latent Subdimensions of Social Communication: A Cross-Measure Factor Analysis.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2021Article
- Sex differences in scores on standardized measures of autism symptoms: a multisite integrative data analysis.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2021Article
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Abstract
The ability to demonstrate and quantify changes in social communication skills has been hindered by a lack of existing measures with appropriate standardization and psychometric properties. Such a measure would be helpful for research in many populations but would be particularly crucial for detecting incremental changes in youth with neurodevelopmental disorders who might gain skills but still lag substantially behind same-age peers. Although study designs and statistical methods are under development to try to account for slow and/or nonlinear, but potentially meaningful, improvements,
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