The CAST (Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test): Preliminary Development of a UK Screen for Mainstream Primary-School-Age Children
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The article describes a pilot and follow-up study of the preliminary development of a new tool to screen for Asperger syndrome (AS) and related social and communication conditions (the Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test, CAST) in children aged 4-11 years, in a non-clinical setting. In the pilot study, parents of 13 children with AS and of 37 typically developing children completed the CAST. There were significant differences between the AS and typical sample means. The pilot was used to establish preliminary cut-off scores for the CAST. In the main study, parents of 1150 primary-school-age children were sent the CAST, and 174 took part in the full data analysis. Results suggest that compared with other tools currently available, the CAST may be useful for identifying children at risk for AS and related conditions, in a mainstream non-clinical sample. Further research is ongoing.
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ASD participants met clinical cut-off scores for Asperger syndrome using ADI-R, Gillberg criteria, or CAST.
“The individuals also met clinical cut-off scores for AS using either the Autism Diagnostic Interview—Revised (Lord et al. 1994), Gillberg and Gillberg’s criteria (Gillberg and Gillberg 1989), or the Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test (Scott et al. 2002).”
From Measuring Theory of Mind in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2017) · cites this paper as Scott et al. 2002
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- Authors
- Scott, F. J., Baron-Cohen, S., Bolton, P., & Brayne, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge, UK
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Venue
- Autism
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-03
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 9-31
- ISSN
- 1362-3613 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7005
- OpenAlex
- W2121350900
- Cited by
- 393
- References
- 28
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- FWCI
- 3.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Autism (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Isaac Newton Trust
- Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family and Disability Support Research
- Keywords
- Asperger syndrome, screening tool development, parent questionnaires, autism spectrum disorder, social communication deficits, elementary school students, cut-off values, at-risk identification
- MeSH terms
- Child, Child, Preschool, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, United Kingdom, Humans, Mainstreaming, Education, Male, Mass Screening, Personality Assessment, Psychometrics, Reproducibility of Results, Asperger Syndrome
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