Autistic Children's Irritability During Social Communication Assessments

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that the CSBS may pose unique challenges for autistic children, as it led to higher rates of irritability and negatively affected children's social communication scores. Evaluating the association between assessment type and irritability supports the complete characterization of autistic children's experience during assessments and clinicians in obtaining a more representative measure of social communication.PMID:38010261 | DOI:10.1044/2023_AJSLP-23-00216

Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - November 27, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Hannah L Fipp-Rosenfield Rachel S Levy Jeffrey M Grauzer Aaron Kaat Megan Y Roberts Source Type: research