Daily Ratings of ASD Symptoms With Digital Media Devices: An
Initial Validity Study University of California, Los Angeles
Having appropriate outcome measures that capture clinical change
in children's behavior is one of the challenges in developing
clinical trials in ASD. This project addresses Autism Speaks’
core mission by investigating a novel assessment technique that
could help overcome barriers to evaluating the efficacy of ASD
treatments in clinical trials. The study evaluates the validity
and treatment sensitivity of an individualized outcome measure,
the Youth Top Problems, adapted for ASD clinical trials using
digital media devices equipped with AutismTrack software.
Individualized measurement of treatment outcome offers the
possibility of increased precision of measurement and reduced
placebo effects. Enhancing the precision of measurement may
improve the ability to detect meaningful treatment effects in
randomized controlled trials for people with autism to better
identify efficacious intervention