The Developmental Assessment of Social Communication Ability (DASCA): initial creation and psychometric description
The DASCA holds promise as an outcome measure for assessing changes in social communication ability. Ongoing development efforts include creating a computer adaptive test administration to allow for serial assessments using different item sets to yield a consistent score that is sensitive to change.
Authors
- Stephen M. Kanne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8691-5759)
- Audrey Thurm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0489-9485)
- Aaron J. Kaat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8147-1899)
- Shuting Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0821-2716)
- Somer Bishop (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2592-4715)
- Sheila Ghods
- Cristan Farmer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6878-5199)
- Stelios Georgiades
- Shrikanth Narayanan
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- National Institute of Mental Health (US)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Center for Autism and Related Disorders (US)
- McMaster University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Molecular Autism
- Published
- 2025-10-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-025-00683-z
- Primary Topic
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development