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）的患病率正在上升，患有ASD的儿童和青少年往往需要额外的支持来抵消明显的教育劣势。这种支持通常依赖于被正式诊断为ASD的个体。谁能得到正式的诊断，谁不能得到正式的诊断，取决于对可能表明自闭症谱系障碍的行为的“筛查”。与患有自闭症的儿童和青少年打交道的专业人士目前遇到了一个问题：没有一种简单、经济的方法来筛查自闭症。这意味着许多可以从支持中受益的儿童可能会因为没有被引导到提供正式诊断的服务中而错失机会。这个项目通过考虑如何将已经用于筛查行为障碍的优势和困难问卷（SDQ）用于筛查英国儿童和青少年与ASD相关的行为来回应这个问题。最终提出的适应性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，该研究对1万多名3-13岁的儿童进行了研究（其中285名在13岁之前被正式诊断为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，从而为他们提供所需的支持。

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.