Table 1 The ASD domain in A–TAC
From: The development of a brief screener for autism using item response theory
Module | Item | Item content |
|---|---|---|
Language | H34 | Was his/her language development delayed or doesn’t he/she speak at all? |
H35 | Does he/she have difficulties sustaining a conversation? | |
H36 | Does he/she like to repeat words and expressions or does he/she use words in a way that other people find strange? | |
H37 | Does he/she have difficulties with games of make-believe or does he/she imitate others considerably less than other children? | |
H38 | Does he/she talk in too high a pitch or too quietly? | |
H39 | Does he/she have difficulties keeping “on track” when telling other people something? | |
Social interaction | I40 | Does he/she have difficulties expressing emotions and reactions with facial gestures, prosody, or body language? |
I41 | Does he/she exhibit considerable difficulties interacting with peers? | |
I42 | Is he/she uninterested in sharing joy, interests, and activities with others? | |
I43 | Can he/she only be with other people on his/her terms? | |
I44 | Does he/she have difficulties behaving as expected by peers? | |
I45 | Do other people easily influence him/her? | |
Flexibility | J46 | Does he/she get absorbed by his/her interests in such a way as being repetitive or too intense? |
J47 | Does he/she get absorbed by routines in such a way as to produce problems for him/herself or others? | |
J48 | Has he/she ever engaged in strange hand movements or toe-walking when he/she was happy or upset? | |
J49 | Does he/she get obsessed with details? | |
J50 | Does he/she dislike changes in daily routines? |