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Screening young people for autism with the developmental behavior checklist.

OBJECTIVE
To determine whether a subset of items from the Developmental Behavior Checklist (DBC) could be selected to construct a reliable autism screening tool.


METHOD
A 29-item scale-the Developmental Behavior Checklist-Autism Screening Algorithm (DBC-ASA)-was developed by using items from the DBC and evaluated in a sample comprising 180 children who met criteria for autism and 180 controls matched for age, sex, and IQ range.


RESULTS
This study found that the DBC-ASA has good validity in discriminating young people (4-18 years) with autism and IQ ranging from normal to severe intellectual disability from others using a cutoff score of 17.


CONCLUSION
The DBC-ASA is an effective autism screening questionnaire for at-risk young people, including those with intellectual disability.