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Tamara Dawkins1, Allison T Meyer2, Mary E Van Bourgondien3
1TEACCH Autism Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, CB 7180, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7180, USA. Tamara_dawkins@med.unc.edu.
Abstract:
The Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition (CARS2; 2010) includes two rating scales; the CARS2-Standard Version (CARS2-ST) and the newly developed CARS2-High Functioning Version (CARS2-HF). To assess the diagnostic agreement between the CARS2 and DSM-IV-TR versus DSM-5 criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), clinicians at community based centers of the University of North Carolina TEACCH Autism Program rated participants seen for a diagnostic evaluation on symptoms of autism using both the DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 criteria and either the CARS2-HF or the CARS2-ST. Findings suggest that overall, the diagnostic agreement of the CARS2 remains high across DSM-IV and DSM-5 criteria for autism.
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