Utility of an Observational Social Skill Assessment as a Measure of Social Cognition in Autism.

ABSTRACT: Models of impaired social competence in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) highlight deficits in social cognition and social behavior. The Contextual Assessment of Social Skills (CASS) is a laboratory-based assessment of conversation ability in which participants interact with trained confederates who act interested (CASS-I) and bored (CASS-B), sequentially. The increased ecological validity of the CASS allows for better generalization to real-world social situations. Participants' perceptions of confederate behavior, assessed by the CASS Conversation Rating Scale (CRS), might offer additional utility as a metric of social cognition. The current study examined CASS confederate behavior (adherence to interested or bored condition) and both internal validity and convergent validity of the CASS a

SUBMITTER: Simmons GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8434817 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature