Free symptom questionnaire may help indicate whether a child has autism

调查人员已经开发出一种免费的我asure of autism symptoms that can help to screen for autism and monitor changes over time in symptoms. Research on the development and validation of the Autism Symptom Dimension Questionnaire (ASDQ) is published inDevelopmental Medicine & Child Neurology．

After development of an initial 33-item version, a revised 39-item version of the ASDQ (available athttps://prolific.co/) was applied to 1,467 children and adolescents, including 104 withautism spectrum disorder．调查问卷被发现可靠的和valid for evaluating autism symptoms across age, sex, race, and ethnicity.

"Having a freely available and modern measure of autism symptoms can greatly improveclinical practiceand advance research into autism spectrum disorder," said corresponding author Thomas W. Frazier, Ph.D., of John Carroll University.