Like its longer equivalent, the 3Di-sv is a computerized parental interview for ASD assessment. This is a 45-min version of the original 3Di (Skuse et al.

To meet this need for a clinically feasible standardized and valid parental interview, the Developmental Diagnostic Dimensional Interview-short version (3Di-sv Santosh et al. This constitutes a significant time burden on both parents and clinicians. 2002), commonly require up to 3 h to administer. Standardized parental interviews, such as the ADI-R or DISCO (Rutter et al. the required time investment (Matson et al. One of the main reasons for this relates to feasibility, i.e. 2014), only 50 % of UK child development teams make use of them (Palmer et al. While the use of standardized parental interviews is becoming more and more common in specialized centers (Ashwood et al. Standardized and validated instruments are available to aid professionals in this process, but can be costly to administer, since they are often time consuming and require specific expertise to correctly administer and interpret. Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex process that requires standardized collection of information through both child observations and parental interviews, as well as other information concerning the functioning of the child (Falkmer et al.

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