title: Investigating the validity of a structured interview protocol for assessing the preferences of children with autism spectrum disorders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the congruent validity of a structured interview protocol for assessing the preferences of seven children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
  
  
  METHODS
  Using the structured interview protocol described by Green et al., parents were asked to provide a rank ordering of their child's preferred foods, drinks, toys and sensory stimuli. The resulting rank order was then compared to the results of a multiple-stimulus without replacement preference assessment by calculating the Spearman rank order correlation coefficients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results revealed a high level of correspondence between the rank orderings of both assessments for four of the six participants for food and drink items and four of the seven participants for play items and sensory stimuli.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results support the use of the structured interview protocol to determine the preferences of children with ASD. Practical implications and directions for future research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rianne
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verschuur
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Didden
authors.forename: Larah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: van der Meer
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Achmadi
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kagohara
authors.forename: Vanessa A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: Giulio E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Lancioni
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D010988:Play and Playthings; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires