title: Validity and reliability of the infant behavioral summarized evaluation (IBSE): a rating scale for the assessment of young children with autism and developmental disorders.
abstract: The Infant Behavioral Summarized Evaluation (IBSE) is a rating scale adapted from the Behavioral Summarized Evaluation (BSE) and specifically related to the assessment of behaviors of young children having autistic disorders. Content validity and reliability studies described in the paper were made from behavior ratings of videotapes for 89 children aged from 6 to 48 months. Results show a significant group of 19 items including some characteristic early autistic behaviors (communicative and social abnormalities) and some that are less commonly described in the syndrome (attentional, perceptive, and adaptive disorders). The value of the use of this scale for clinicians and professionals involved in behavioral evaluations and treatment of young children with developmental disorders and the necessity for further psychometric investigations are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Départment de Psychopathologie et de Neurophysiologie du Développement, C.H.U. Bretonneau, Tours, France.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Adrien
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barthélémy
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Perrot
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roux
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lenoir
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hameury
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sauvage
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003147:Communication Disorders / Q000150:complications; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014743:Videotape Recording