TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bölte, Sven
A1  - Westerwald, Eva
A1  - Holtmann, Martin
A1  - Freitag, Christine M.
A1  - Poustka, Fritz
T1  - Autistic traits and autism spectrum disorders : the clinical validity of two measures presuming a continuum of social communication skills
T2  - Journal of autism and developmental disorders
N2  - Research indicates that autism is the extreme end of a continuously distributed trait. The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) and the Social and Communication Disorders Checklist (SCDC) aim to assess autistic traits. The objective of this study was to compare their clinical validity. The SRS showed sensitivities of .74 to .80 and specificities of .69 to 1.00 for autism. Sensitivities were .85 to .90 and specificities .28 to.82 for the SCDC. Correlations with the ADI-R, ADOS and SCQ were higher for the SRS than for the SCDC. The SCDC seems superior to the SRS to screen for unspecific social and communicative deficits including autism. The SRS appears more suitable than the SCDC in clinical settings and for specific autism screening.
KW  - PDD - Assessment - Screening
KW  - Questionnaire - Psychometrics - Diagnostics
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/26531
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-265316
SN  - 1573-3432
SN  - 0162-3257
N1  - Author(s) 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com . Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
VL  - 41
IS  - 1
SP  - 66
EP  - 72
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
ER  -