title: Utility of the Psychoeducational Profile-3 for assessing cognitive and language skills of children with autism spectrum disorders.
abstract: The Psychoeducational Profile-3's (PEP-3) ability to estimate cognitive and language skills of 136 children (20-75 months) with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) across a range of functioning, and the association between the PEP-3 and ASD symptomatology was examined using retrospective data. PEP-3 cognitive and language measures were positively correlated with similar measures on the Child Development Inventory, the Merrill-Palmer Revised, and the Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scale-2. The PEP-3 sometimes provided higher or lower estimates than other measures. Significant differences were found between diagnostic groups on PEP-3 cognitive and language measures. PEP-3 cognitive scores correlated positively with scores on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule. Findings support the use of the PEP-3 to measure cognition and language in children with ASDs.
authors: The University of New Brunswick, P.O Box 4400, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada, t533z@unb.ca.
authors: Mandy L
authors: ML
authors: Fulton
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: D'Entremont
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D020377:Self Efficacy