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1. Introduction
2. Overview
3. Common referral questions
4. Components of a comprehensive assessment
5. Domains of assessment
6. Maximizing the validity of testing
7. Maximizing validity of scores
8. Strategies for maximizing child participation
9. Intellectual assessment instruments
10. Intellectual assessment: instrument choice
11. Leiter International Performance Scale - revised
12. Differential Abilities Scale (DAS-II)
13. Mullen Scales of Early Learning (1994)
14. Adaptive assessment
15. Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
16. Academic achievement
17. Academic assessment instruments
18. Learning disabilities and ASD
19. Neuropsychological assessment
20. Profile present across domains
21. Profile analysis: a word of caution
22. Psychiatric comorbidity
23. Occam's razor
24. When to consider comorbidity
25. Assessment challenges
26. Common comorbid psychiatric disorders
27. Mood disorders and ASD
28. Anxiety and ASD
29. ADHD and ASD
30. Tics and ASD
31. Rarely comorbid psychiatric disorders
32. OCD and autism
33. Psychosis and ASD
34. Useful instruments - measures of psychopathology
35. Considerations in instrument choice
36. Acknowledgements

Topics Covered

• Psychological assessment
• Common referral questions
• Getting the most out of an assessment
• Components of a comprehensive assessment
• Factors in instrument selection
• Evaluation of psychiatric co-morbidity

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Series:

• Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on February 23, 2010
• Archived on June 19, 2020

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Sally Ozonoff has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.