Screening for Asperger Syndrome in primary schools
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 (13:05:24)

Posted by Sylvia

Currently, AS is picked up far too late. It should be possible to identify AS in children in primary school (age 5-11). The Autism Research Centre have developed a screening instrument for this purpose, called the CAST (Childhood Asperger Screening Test) and are testing it at a population level.

The CAST (Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test) : Preliminary development of UK screen for mainstream primary-school children has been developed by F. Scott, S. Baron-Cohen, P. Bolton and C. Brayne from the Autism Research Centre.

Click here to download CAST