The Learning, Social and Emotion Adaptation Questionnaire-Short Form: A Measure of Adaptive Behavior for Primary School Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Hannah Man-Yan Tse, Irene T Ho, Kathy Wong
PMID 33164346WHAT IT FOUND
The 53-item LSEAQ-S reliably measures school adaptation for students with autism.
It takes teachers 15 to 20 minutes to complete and provides norms showing girls with autism lag behind peers more than boys do, especially as they age.
Key findings
01The LSEAQ-S has a stable 11-factor structure with excellent internal consistency and strong correlation with the Social Responsiveness Scale.
02Teachers reported that completing the LSEAQ-S took an average of 15 to 20 minutes.
03Normative data indicate that girls with autism fall behind their same-gender peers in school adaptation more than boys with autism do, and this gap widens in senior primary grades.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
No data on intellectual ability was collected, so it is unclear how cognitive level influenced adaptive scores. The study used cross-sectional data, so it cannot directly track individual development over time. Interrater and test-retest reliability were not examined because multiple teachers sometimes contributed to a single questionnaire and students received training between assessments.
Declared interests
The authors declare no conflict of interest. The study was part of a project jointly led by the Hong Kong Education Bureau and The University of Hong Kong.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume that raw scores alone reflect a student's relative difficulty. The study found that while raw scores for flexibility were higher than for higher-order thinking, the standard scores showed the opposite trend, meaning students with autism actually fell behind their peers more in flexibility.