Autism-World

The Parent Interview for Autism (PIA) is an instrument that was used in a research study and might not be readily available to practicing clinicians. Therefore, the panel chose not to make specific recommendations on using the PIA, but reviewed evidence from the study to make general recommendations about the use of structured parent interviews for young children with possible autism.

The Parent Interview for Autism (PIA; Stone and Hogan, 1993) is intended to elicit relevant information about children functioning at the preschool level and below. The PIA is a respondent-based interview that requires parents to make judgments about the frequency of occurrence of specific behaviors. PIA items are administered verbally, so that parents’ questions can be clarified. Administration of the PIA takes approximately 30-45 minutes.

Tips:

• A structured parent interview may be useful as part of the assessment of children with possible autism, especially if there is research evidence that the particular assessment instrument has adequate sensitivity and specificity for identifying children with autism. [A]

• ??It is important to supplement the structured parent interview with direct observation of the child. [D1]

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 1:26 pm and is filed under Autism Diagnosis.