Social challenges including autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

Scoring Key

A score of six or greater indicates that individuals have social challenges possibly related to ASD, and thus warrants further evaluation for ASD or other conditions. Sensitivity of 0.94 (detecting 94% of individuals correctly) and a specificity of 0.88 (identifying 12% of individuals incorrectly).

For more information

Christopher J. Smith, Elena Pollard, Alexander J. Stein, Sharman Ober-Reynolds,

Janet Kirwan, Amanda Malligo, Nicole L. Matthews, Daniel Openden & Raun D. Melmed (2015)

A Method for Universal Screening of Elementary School Students: Development of the Social

Challenges Screening Questionnaire, Journal of Applied School Psychology, 31:2, 115-140, DOI:

10.1080/15377903.2014.995391