ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2025
From Symptomatology to Functioning - Applying the ICF to Autism Measures to Facilitate Neurodiversity-Affirmative Data Harmonization.
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- Autism and ADHD Strengths and Needs in a Nutshell - Parental Evaluation of a Digital ICF-Based Assessment Summary Report.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Assessing the psychometric properties of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule - Generic (ADOS-G) in a clinical setting in the Chinese mainland.Molecular autism · 2026Article
- A Systematic Review of Autistic Adults' Experiences of Anxiety From a Qualitative Perspective.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Sensory Profile-2 in Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Analysis within the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Framework.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Expanding Research on Contextual Factors in Autism Research: What Took Us So Long?Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Application of the international classification of functioning, disability, and health in autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A scoping review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Class of international functioning disability and health core sets for autism spectrum disorder: Occupational therapists' perspective.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2025Article
- Commentary: Toward a more comprehensive autism assessment: the survey of autistic strengths, skills, and interests.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeA considerable number of screening and diagnostic tools for autism exist, but variability in these measures presents challenges to data harmonization and the comparability and generalizability of findings. At the same time, there is a movement away from autism symptomatology to stances that capture heterogeneity and appreciate diversity. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) provides a classification system that can support content harmonization of different screening and diagnostic tools for autism while enabling the translation of diagnostic information into functioning.
methodHere we linked commonly used screening and diagnostic measures within the field of autism to the ICF to facilitate the unification of data obtained from these measures.
resultsAs expected, screening and diagnostic measures primarily focus on body functions and activities and participation domains of the ICF, and much less on environmental factors, reflecting biomedical and adaptive behavior operationalizations of autism derived from diagnostic manuals.
conclusionBy translating symptomology-based information to the continuous and diagnostically neutral view of functioning, the ICF linking presented here may provide a means to harmonize measures of autism characteristics while enabling diagnostic information to be re-examined through a more neurodiversity-affirmative lens.
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