ADOS screening?

[MicheleStuart]

Hi girls! What do you all know about the ADOS tool to screen for the spectrum? DS will be having this in about six weeks.
Thanks,
Michele

[shonda in ca]

I must be out of the loop because I have no idea what this is!
When my ds was "dx'd" the psych just talked to him and told me he was...No tests.

[Esther-Alabama]

Found this on a web page I had bookmarked about autism screening and diagnosis. I can't tell you anything from personal experience, but hth....

"Currently, per the National Academy of Sciences report "Educating Children with Autism" available for review online through our website, the "Gold Standard" for diagnosing ASD is a combination of the ADI-R and ADOS. The ADI-R is the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised and is a developmental and behavioral history done by a trained professional with the parent/caregiver that takes 90-120 minutes. The ADOS is the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule and is a structured series of interactions and observations of the child in a variety of situations and at various tasks. The combination of an extensive history interview with the person that knows the child best and a structured observation of key skills by a fully-trained professional forms the best basis for formulating a diagnosis that exists today."