Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire ASSQ

Your child is old-fashioned or precocious

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

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

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

Your child has a literal understanding of ambiguous and metaphorical language

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

Your child invents idiosyncratic words and expressions

Your child has a different voice or speech

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

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

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

Your child lacks empathy

Your child makes naive and embarrassing remarks

Your child has a deviant style of gaze

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

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

Your child lacks best friend

Your child lacks common sense

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

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

Your child has involuntary face or body movements

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

Your child has special routines: insists on no change

Your child shows idiosyncratic attachment to objects

Your child is bullied by other children

Your child has markedly unusual facial expression

Your child has markedly unusual posture