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Measuring autistic traits: heritability, reliability and validity of the Social and Communication Disorders Checklist.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 Dec 2005
Skuse David H, Mandy William P L, Scourfield Jane
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BACKGROUND: Autistic traits are widely distributed in the general population, but the boundaries of the autistic spectrum are unclear. Whole-population surveys of unselected samples of children are hampered by the lack of appropriate screening instruments. AIMS: To assess whether the Social and Communication Disorders Checklist (SCDC) fulfils the need for a sensitive measure of autistic traits, which can be...
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