Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire ASSQ

Question 1 / 27

Your child is old-fashioned or precocious

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child is regarded as an "eccentric professor" by the other children

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child lives somewhat in a world of his/her own with restricted idiosyncratic intellectual interests

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child accumulates facts on certain subjects (good rote memory) but does not really understand the meaning

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child has a literal understanding of ambiguous and metaphorical language

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child has a deviant style of communication with a formal, fussy, old-fashioned or “robot-like” language

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child invents idiosyncratic words and expressions

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child has a different voice or speech

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child expresses sounds involuntarily; clears throat, grunts, smacks, cries or screams

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child is surprisingly good at some things and surprisingly poor at others

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child uses language freely but fails to make adjustment to fit social contexts or the needs of different listeners

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child lacks empathy

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child makes naive and embarrassing remarks

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child has a deviant style of gaze

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child wishes to be sociable but fails to make relationships with peers

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child can be with other children but only on his/her terms

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child lacks best friend

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child lacks common sense

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child is poor at games: no idea of cooperating in a team, scores “own goals”

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child has clumsy, ill coordinated, ungainly, awkward movements or gestures

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child has involuntary face or body movements

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child has difficulties in completing simple daily activities because of compulsory repetition of certain actions or thoughts

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child has special routines: insists on no change

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child shows idiosyncratic attachment to objects

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child is bullied by other children

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child has markedly unusual facial expression

No
Somewhat
Yes

Your child has markedly unusual posture

No
Somewhat
Yes
Sources:

S Ehlers, C Gillberg, L Wing. A screening questionnaire for Asperger syndrome and other high-functioning autism spectrum disorders in school age children. J Autism Dev Disord. 1999; 29(2): 129–141.

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