Digital tools for direct assessment of autism risk during early childhood: A systematic review.

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The challenge of finding autistic children, and finding them early enough to make a difference for them and their families, becomes all the greater in parts of the world where human and material resources are in short supply. Poverty of resources delays interventions, translating into a poverty of outcomes. Digital tools carry potential to lessen this delay because they can be administered by non-specialists in children's homes, schools or other everyday environments, they can measure a wide range of autistic behaviours objectively and they can automate analysis without requiring an expert in computers or statistics. This literature review aimed to identify and describe digital tools for screening children who may be at risk for autism. These tools are predominantly at

SUBMITTER: Mukherjee D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10771029 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature