Construct Validity of the Autism Classification System of Functioning: Social Communication (ACSF:SC) Across Childhood and Adolescence

Diana Tajik-Parvinchi; Peter Rosenbaum; Mary Jo Cooley Hidecker; Eric Duku; Lonnie Zwaigenbaum; Caroline Roncadin; Stelios Georgiades; Stephen Gentles; Hanna Fang; Briano Di Rezze

doi:10.1007/s10803-022-05608-w

Construct Validity of the Autism Classification System of Functioning: Social Communication (ACSF:SC) Across Childhood and Adolescence

Diana Tajik-Parvinchi, Peter Rosenbaum, Mary Jo Cooley Hidecker, Eric Duku, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Caroline Roncadin, Stelios Georgiades, Stephen Gentles, Hanna Fang, Briano Di Rezze

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Abstract

This study examined the construct validity of the Autism Classification System of Functioning: Social Communication (ACSF). Participants included 145 parents of children with autism (2–19 years). The degree of convergent and discriminant validity between parent reported ACSF and subscales from Social Responsiveness Scale 2nd edition and Behavior Assessment System for Children, 3rd Edition were examined against a priori hypotheses. We examined construct validity in the entire sample as well as in specific age cohorts. Our findings suggest that ACSF can provide a valid classification system of social communication ability in children with autism 2–19 years of age, and its two subscales may be used to examine different aspects of social communication ability.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05608-w
State	Accepted/In press - 2022

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Funding Information:
Funding support was provided by the Hamilton Health Sciences New Investigator Fund 2019 (to BDR), Hamilton Health Sciences Early Career Award 2018–2020 (to BDR), and Hamilton Academic Health Sciences Organization 2018–2020 (to PR and BDR).

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© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

Adolescents
Autism spectrum disorder
Children
Social Communication
Social Skills

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Tajik-Parvinchi, D., Rosenbaum, P., Hidecker, M. J. C., Duku, E., Zwaigenbaum, L., Roncadin, C., Georgiades, S., Gentles, S., Fang, H., & Di Rezze, B. (Accepted/In press). Construct Validity of the Autism Classification System of Functioning: Social Communication (ACSF:SC) Across Childhood and Adolescence. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05608-w

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