Profiles of parent-teacher discrepancy on autistic children's adaptive functioning.

ABSTRACT: Clinical guidelines recommend collecting reports from multiple informants when identifying and diagnosing challenges in children. The current study examined parent-teacher discrepancies in rating of autistic children's adaptive functioning and how these related to children's executive functions. Participants (n = 194) were a subsample of autistic children (mean age = 9.2 years; 86% male) from the Pathways in ASD cohort. We used latent profile analysis to characterise profiles based on both parent and teacher reports of adaptive functioning levels. We tested links between these profiles and indices of children's executive function and other clinical correlates. Four profiles were characterised: a lower adaptive functioning-parent higher profile, in which parents reporte

SUBMITTER: Lees Thorne R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12923639 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature