[article]
| Titre : |
Assessing global developmental delay across instruments in minimally verbal preschool autistic children: The importance of a multi-method and multi-informant approach |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Dominique GIRARD, Auteur ; Valérie COURCHESNE, Auteur ; Janie DEGRE-PELLETIER, Auteur ; Camille LETENDRE, Auteur ; Isabelle SOULIERES, Auteur |
| Article en page(s) : |
p.103-116 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Aptitude Autism Spectrum Disorder/complications Autistic Disorder Child, Preschool Cognition Humans Language Development Disorders Mullen Scales of Early Learning Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale adaptive functioning autism intelligence minimally verbal nonverbal skills |
| Index. décimale : |
PER Périodiques |
| Résumé : |
Intellectual assessment in preschool autistic children bears many challenges, particularly for those who have lower language and/or cognitive abilities. These challenges often result in underestimation of their potential or exclusion from research studies. Understanding how different instruments and definitions used to identify autistic preschool children with global developmental delay (GDD) affect sample composition is critical to advance research on this understudied clinical population. This study set out to examine the extent to which using different instruments to define GDD affects sample composition and whether different definitions affect resultant cognitive and adaptive profiles. Data from the Mullen Scales of Early Learning and the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales-Second Edition, a parent-report tool, were analyzed in a sample of 64 autistic and 73 neurotypical children (28-69 months). Our results highlight that cognitive assessment alone should not be used in clinical or research practices to infer a comorbid diagnosis of GDD, as it might lead to underestimating autistic children's potential. Instead, using both adaptive and cognitive levels as a stratification method to create subgroups of children with and without GDD might be a promising approach to adequately differentiate them, with less risk of underestimating them. |
| En ligne : |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aur.2630 |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=450 |
in Autism Research > 15-1 (January 2022) . - p.103-116
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