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1. Introduction
2. Overview
3. Frequent reasons for referral
4. Comprehensive assessment
5. General assessment guidelines
6. Increasing validity and participation (1)
7. Increasing validity and participation (2)
8. Evaluating psychological assessments
9. Developmental & intellectual assessment
10. Importance of repeat assessment
11. Instrument selection
12. Bayley Scales of Infant Development
13. Mullen Scales of Early Learning
14. Wechsler Intelligence Scales
15. Differential Abilities Scale
16. Stanford-Binet Scale
17. Leiter International Performance Scale
18. Adaptive assessment (1)
19. Adaptive assessment (2)
20. Academic assessment
21. Academic assessment tools
22. Neuropsychological assessment
23. Psychiatric assessment tools
24. Broadband measures of psychopathology
25. Narrowband measures of psychopathology
26. Diagnostic interviews
27. Psychiatric comorbidity & differential diagnosis (1)
28. Psychiatric comorbidity & differential diagnosis (2)
29. ADHD and ASD
30. Other aspects of assessment
31. Feedback to families
32. Acknowledgments

Topics Covered

• Overview of psychological assessment of ASD
• Reasons for referral
• Approaches to comprehensive assessment
• General assessment administration guidelines
• Key assessment domains include developmental/intellectual functioning, adaptive skills, academic functioning, and neuropsychological functioning
• Comorbidity and differential diagnosis
• Feedback to families

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Series:

• Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Categories:

• Clinical Medicine
• Diseases, Disorders & Treatments
• Neuroscience

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Publication History

• Published on June 30, 2020

Financial Disclosures

• There are no commercial/financial matters to disclose.