THE SOCIAL COMMUNICATON QUESTIONNAIRE (SCQ) AS A SCREENER FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS: ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE AND CROSS-CULTURAL VALIDITY

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Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Volume 47, Issue 6, June 2008, Pages 719-720

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For the same reason we could not evaluate the test-retest reliability of the instrument, and therefore we were unable to assess the utility of the questionnaire for the therapeutic process. The majority of SRS validation studies have examined its convergent validity using such ‘golden standards’ of diagnostics as the ADOS, the ADI-R (Filipek et al., 2000; Ozonoff, Goodlin-Jones, & Solomon, 2005) or other widely used scales, e.g. the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) (Bölte, Holtmann, & Poustka, 2008) and the Autism Screening Questionnaire (ASQ) (Berument, Rutter, Lord, Pickles, & Bailey, 1999). Unfortunately, these scales have not been validated for the Lithuanian population and therefore in our study, like the one conducted in Taiwan (Wang et al., 2012), the diagnoses of the subjects in the ASD subsample were based only on the diagnostic criteria provided in the ICD-10.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITORTHE SOCIAL COMMUNICATON QUESTIONNAIRE (SCQ) AS A SCREENER FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS: ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE AND CROSS-CULTURAL VALIDITY

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