Support Needs of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Implications for Their Assessment

Author:

Guillén Verónica M.1ORCID,Verdugo Miguel Á.2ORCID,Jiménez Pedro3,Aguayo Virginia2ORCID,Amor Antonio M.2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Education, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain

2. Institute for Community Inclusion and Department of Personality, Assessment, and Psychological Treatments, Universidad de Salamanca, 37005 Salamanca, Spain

3. Institute for Community Inclusion, Universidad de Salamanca, 37005 Salamanca, Spain

Abstract

The construct of support needs has become a key aspect for the diagnostics, classification, and interventional management of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). However, instruments specifically designed to assess support needs in this population are not available. Currently, the Supports Intensity Scale for Children (SIS-C), which could be administered to assess students with any type of intellectual disability (ID), is the only valid tool able to assess support needs in Spain. Our aim was to verify whether the SIS-C is useful for assessing the support needs of students with ASD, regardless of whether or not they present ID. The participants were subdivided into two groups. One group included students with ASD and ID (n = 248), and the other comprised participants with ASD without an ID (n = 44). The results of the two groups were compared with those reported in the original validation sample of the SIS-C, which involved participants with ID without ASD (n = 566). The results showed that this scale could be useful for assessing support needs in the three subgroups, but it appeared that different standardized norms based on the characteristics of each specific population would be appropriate.

Funder

Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

Autonomous Community of Castilla-Leon

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Behavioral Neuroscience,General Psychology,Genetics,Development,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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