The adult outcome of children referred for autism: typology and prediction from childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Autism Spectrum Disorder is highly heterogeneous, no more so than in the complex world of adult life. Being able to summarize that complexity and have some notion of the confidence with which we could predict outcome from childhood would be helpful for clinical practice and planning.

Methods

Latent class profile analysis is applied to data from 123 participants from the Early Diagnosis Study (Lord et al., Archives of General Psychiatry, 2006, 63, 694) to summarize in a typology the multifacetted early adult outcome of children referred for autism around age 2. The form of the classes and their predictability from childhood is described.

Results

Defined over 15 measures, the adult outcomes were reduced to four latent classes, accounting for much of the varia

SUBMITTER: Pickles A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7384105 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature