Influence of family demographic factors on social communication questionnaire scores.
Steven A RosenbergEric J MoodyLi-Ching LeeCarolyn DiGuiseppiGayle C WindhamLisa D WigginsLaura A SchieveCaroline M LedbetterSusan E LevyLisa BlaskeyLisa YoungPilar BernalCordelia R RosenbergM Daniele FallinPublished in: Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research (2018)
Screeners are used to help identify children who are more likely to have ASD than their peers. Ideally screeners should be accurate for different groups of children and families. This study examined how well the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) predicts ASD. We found that male sex, lower household income, lower maternal education and Black race were associated with higher SCQ scores. In this study an SCQ cut-point of 11 worked best across the different sociodemographic groups in our sample.