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The Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC)?? published in 1980 (Krug et al., 1980) is a list of questions about a child’s behaviors.??The ABC??is part of a broader tool, the Autism Screening Instrument for Educational Planning (ASIEP) (Krug et al., 1978). The ABC is designed to be completed independently by a parent or a teacher familiar with the child who then returns it to a trained professional for scoring and interpretation. Although it is primarily designed to identify children with autism within a population of school-age children with severe disabilities, the ABC has been used with children as young as 3 years of age.And it??appears to have limited usefulness in identifying children with autism who are under the age of 3.

The ABC has 57 questions divided into five categories: (1) sensory, (2) relating, (3) body and object use, (4) language, and (5) social and self-help.When used in conjunction with other diagnostic instruments and methods, the ABC may have some usefulness as a symptom inventory to be completed by parents or teachers. Clinicians could utilize this inventory in structuring their evaluation.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 at 10:02 pm and is filed under Autism Diagnosis.