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The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers: An initial study investigating the early detection of autism and pervasive developmental disorders (1999)
| Venue: | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders |
| Citations: | 95 - 2 self |
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@ARTICLE{Robins99themodified,
author = {Diana L. Robins and Deborah Fein and Marianne L. Barton and James A. Green},
title = {The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers: An initial study investigating the early detection of autism and pervasive developmental disorders},
journal = {Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders},
year = {1999},
pages = {131--144}
}
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Abstract
Autism, a severe disorder of development, is difficult to detect in very young children. How-ever, children who receive early intervention have improved long-term prognoses. The Mod-ified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT), consisting of 23 yes/no items, was used to screen 1,293 children. Of the 58 children given a diagnostic/developmental evaluation, 39 were diagnosed with a disorder on the autism spectrum. Six items pertaining to social relat-edness and communication were found to have the best discriminability between children di-agnosed with and without autism/PDD. Cutoff scores were created for the best items and the total checklist. Results indicate that the M-CHAT is a promising instrument for the early de-tection of autism. KEY WORDS: Autism; modified checklist; toddlers.
Keyphrases
pervasive developmental disorder modified checklist early detection initial study promising instrument autism spectrum key word six item total checklist autism pdd young child diagnostic developmental evaluation long-term prognosis early intervention mod-ified checklist social relat-edness early de-tection cutoff score severe disorder
