Childhood autism: Translation and validation of the Childhood Autism Rating Scale for use in Brazil

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 487-494

  Pereira, Alessandra M ^a,c   Riesgo, Rudimar S ^a   Wagner, Mario B ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c University of London ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Autism; Questionnaires; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD AUTISM RATING SCALE; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EDUCATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANTILE AUTISM; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 57349187677     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.1828     Document Type: Article

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