The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use.
By L. Wing, S. Leekam, Sarah J Libby, J. Gould, Mike Larcombe. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 2002
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BACKGROUND The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO) is a schedule for the diagnosis of autistic spectrum and related disorders and assessment of individual needs. It enables information to be recorded systematically for a wide range of behaviours and developmental skills and is suitable for use with all ages and levels of ability. In addition to helping the clinician to obtain a profile of each individual's pattern of development and behaviour, the DISCO also enables identification of specific features found in autistic spectrum disorders that are relevant for use with established diagnostic systems. METHOD This paper describes the historical background of the DISCO, outlines its structure and reports the results of an inter-rater reliability study with parents of 82 children aged 3 to 11 years with autistic spectrum disorder, learning disability, language disorder or typical development. RESULTS Inter-rater reliability for the items in the interview was high (kappa coefficient or intra-class correlation at .75 or higher). This level of agreement was achieved for over 80% of the interview items.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology
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- Autism after Adolescence: Population-based 13- to 22-year Follow-up Study of 120 Individuals with Autism Diagnosed in Childhood (2005, methodology): “It has excellent interrater and test–retest reliability, and is highly valid for assigning diagnoses (including common comorbidity diagnoses) in the autism spectrum (Wing et al., 2002).”
- Managing the Transition Process From High School to College and Beyond: Challenges for Individuals, Families, and Society (2009, background): “ Baron-‐Cohen et al (2005), Gillberg et al (2001), and Wing et al (2002) have specifically examined the differential expression of the autism disorders across ages.”
- Prevalence of autism in a US metropolitan area. (2003, methodology): “For children who were administered IQ tests, severity of cognitive impairment was defined according to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition (ICD-9),(31) MR categories: mild (50-70), moderate (35-49), severe (20-34), and profound ( 20).”
- Describing the Sensory Abnormalities of Children and Adults with Autism (2007, methodology): “algorithms used by the ADI-R (Lord et al., 1994) and the DISCO ( Wing et al., 2002 ), the ‘marked’ rating was selected for the data analysis.”
- Relations among restricted and repetitive behaviors, anxiety and sensory features in children with autism spectrum disorders (2014, neutral): “Further research could investigate the utility of questionnaire measures of this kind within the diagnostic process; for example, they may provide a supplement to clinical interviews such as the DISCO which also asks about specific separate behaviours.”
- The developmental, dimensional and diagnostic interview (3di): a novel computerized assessment for autism spectrum disorders. (2004, methodology): “The validity of content for the assessment of autistic disorders was determined by comparing the 3di with published material on the most discriminating domains of behavior that are typical of autistic children (e.g., Leekam et al., 2002; Lord et al., 1994, 1997).”