2018
DOI: 10.1002/aur.2045
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Beyond pass‐fail: Examining the potential utility of two thresholds in the autism screening process

Abstract: Access to early intervention as early in development as possible is critical to maximizing long-term outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, despite the fact that ASD can be reliably diagnosed by 24 months, the average age of diagnosis is 2 years later. Waitlists for specialized developmental evaluations are one barrier to early diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to examine one potential approach to reducing wait time for an ASD diagnostic evaluation by examining the utility … Show more

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“…Screening practices for autism must be streamlined within medical homes to best identify the needs for early intervention, optimize parent access to early intervention, and identify needs toward addressing parent stress and quality of life during this critical developmental period. Novel methods toward improving observational screening practices may optimize this process in pediatric care (Hampton, Curtis, & Roberts, 2019; Roberts, Stern, et al, 2019; Talbott et al, 2020). Furthermore, underlying medical conditions should be screened and examined more thoroughly at the onset of concern such that early intervention models can be leveraged with an understanding of underlying conditions and associated characteristics (Whitehouse, 2017).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Screening practices for autism must be streamlined within medical homes to best identify the needs for early intervention, optimize parent access to early intervention, and identify needs toward addressing parent stress and quality of life during this critical developmental period. Novel methods toward improving observational screening practices may optimize this process in pediatric care (Hampton, Curtis, & Roberts, 2019; Roberts, Stern, et al, 2019; Talbott et al, 2020). Furthermore, underlying medical conditions should be screened and examined more thoroughly at the onset of concern such that early intervention models can be leveraged with an understanding of underlying conditions and associated characteristics (Whitehouse, 2017).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The STAT was first described in an unpublished manual [see (21)] as a brief interactive measure that did not demand language comprehension and could be used by health-care workers and related professionals. A number of published evaluation studies have emanated from laboratories led by researchers from four different US institutions and from one Taiwanese university (21,(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48).…”
Section: The Statmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Whether the administrator was blind to referral reasons and diagnosis of the child in the studies cited above is sometimes clear (21,43,46,48), but not always (45). Administrator training is usually carefully described, but inter-rater reliability data are presented meticulously in some papers (44,46), quite vaguely (i.e., difficult to interpret) in some (43,48) and not at all in others (45)-although reference to other published reliability data (46) or the meeting of online training criteria may be present (44,47).…”
Section: The Statmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This means that using single-sex subjects in early childhood is one of the most promising ways to explore a more pure, uncompensated model of typical ASD developmental disorders. However, despite the fact that ASD can be early diagnosed by 24 months, the average age of diagnosis is 2 years later ( Roberts et al, 2019 ), so preschool age may be the appropriate age to study ASD.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%