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ArticleAmerican journal of speech-language pathology2024

Autistic Children's Irritability During Social Communication Assessments.

Hannah L Fipp-Rosenfield, Rachel S Levy, Jeffrey M Grauzer, Aaron Kaat, Megan Y Roberts

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Article in American journal of speech-language pathology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trajectory of Irritability in Autistic and Typically Developing Youth From Early Childhood to Adolescence.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hannah L Fipp-RosenfieldRoxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.ORCID 0000-0001-9516-9789
Rachel S LevyRoxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.ORCID 0000-0002-6215-6567
Jeffrey M GrauzerRoxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.ORCID 0000-0001-6202-9851
Aaron KaatDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.ORCID 0000-0001-8147-1899
Megan Y RobertsRoxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.ORCID 0000-0002-4699-0236
Northwestern University · US

Funding

The role of parent phenotype in parent-mediated language interventions for autismR01DC014709 · NIDCD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI ROBERTS, MEGAN Y · 2015 to 2019
$3.7M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC014709
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeAccurate measurement of autistic children's social communication is critical for assessing skills, setting intervention goals, evaluating change over time, determining service eligibility, and determining classroom placement. There are various types of assessments, some of which use specific tasks to elicit social communication. Structured tasks may frustrate children, inadvertently elicit irritability, and have a cascading effect on their ability to communicate. To date, no studies have evaluated how differing types of social communication assessments may exacerbate children's irritability and impact assessment scores. We examined the extent to which (a) social communication assessment type (structured vs. naturalistic) impacts autistic children's irritability and (b) child irritability is associated with social communication scores.

methodAutistic toddlers (

resultsChild irritability during the CSBS was significantly higher than during the MCX (

conclusionsOur findings suggest that the CSBS may pose unique challenges for autistic children, as it led to higher rates of irritability and negatively affected children's social communication scores. Evaluating the association between assessment type and irritability supports the complete characterization of autistic children's experience during assessments and clinicians in obtaining a more representative measure of social communication.

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Autistic DisorderChild, PreschoolCommunicationHumans

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PMID38010261
PMCPMC11000782
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