- PMD: 9
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Poster Session 4: Recent Developments in Assessment and Research
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- understand how autism is presented in nonbinary individuals compared to cisgender individuals;
- help mental health providers understand how gender impacts autism scores on rating scales; and
- inform autism test developers on whether autism assessments help to identify individuals with autism from a nonbinary population.
Description
This study examines whether autism measures, such as the Autism Spectrum Rating Scales (ASRS), effectively identify nonbinary youth with autism by comparing scores on the ASRS with cisgender youth scores.
Presenter(s)
Vaunam P. Venkadasalam, Multi-Health Systems
Contributor(s)
Samantha Snetsinger, Diane Mangalindan
