Can we improve how we screen for behaviours associated with ASD in children and young people? Evidence from adaptations of the Strengths and Difficult

自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的患病率正在增加，患有ASD的儿童和年轻人通常需要额外的支持来弥补明显的教育劣势。这种支持通常依赖于有正式ASD诊断的个人。谁能或不能得到正式的诊断，很大程度上取决于对可能表明ASD的行为进行“筛查”。与ASD儿童和年轻人一起工作的专业人员目前面临一个问题：没有一种简单、经济有效的方法来筛查ASD。这意味着许多本可以从支持中受益的儿童可能因为没有被引导到提供正式诊断的服务而错过了这个问题。这个项目通过考虑如何调整已经用于筛查行为障碍的优势和困难问卷（SDQ）来筛查英国儿童和年轻人中与ASD相关的行为。最终提出的适应将通过分析来自英国一项大型研究的ASD和SDQ数据进行测试，该研究涉及10，000多名3-13岁的儿童（285名在13岁时被正式诊断为ASD）。这个项目有可能为更多的儿童和年轻人提供获得诊断的机会，从而获得他们所需要的支持。

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are increasing in prevalence, and children and young people with ASDoften need additional support to offset a marked educational disadvantage. This support commonly reliesupon individuals having formal diagnoses of ASD. Who does or does not get a formal diagnosis dependspartly upon 'screening' for behaviours that may be indicative of ASD.Professionals working with children and young people with ASD currently experience a problem: There isno brief, cost-effective way to screen for ASD. This means many children who could benefit from supportmay be missing out by not being directed to services providing formal diagnoses.This project responds to this problem by considering how the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire(SDQ) - already used to screen for behavioural disorders - can be adapted to screen for behavioursassociated with ASD in children and young people in the UK. The eventual proposed adaptation will betested by analysing ASD and SDQ data from a large UK study of over 10,000 children from ages 3-13(285 with a formal diagnosis of ASD by age 13). This project has the potential to provide many morechildren and young people with the opportunity to get the diagnoses, and therefore the support, thatthey need.