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Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
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Screening Cases Within a Statewide Autism Registry

A Comparison of Parental Reports Using DSM-IV-TR Criteria Versus the SCQ

Robin P. Goin-Kochel

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, kochel{at}bcm.tmc.edu

Robert Cohen

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

Parents and caregivers of 70 children enrolled in a university-based, statewide autism registry ( M age = 9.5 years) completed two questionnaires, one generated from criteria outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—Fourth Edition—Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) and the other the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ), to determine the number of cases likely to have autism. Based on DSM-IV-TR questionnaire (DSM-Q) results, 94.3% met criteria for probable autism. In contrast, 88.6% met criteria for possible autism with the SCQ. The two instruments agreed on 89% of the cases, and the frequencies of cases meeting criteria on each measure were not statistically different (p > .05). Results are discussed in terms of their application to the creation of local autism registries.

Key Words: autism spectrum disorders • research registry • Social Communication Questionnaire • diagnostic

This version was published on September 1, 2008

Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 23, No. 3, 148-154 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1088357608316270
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