From: Autism beyond diagnostic categories: characterization of autistic phenotypes in schizophrenia
Given are the interview questions; a detailed psychometrical evaluation of the instrument will be published elsewhere | |
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Part 1: EARLY DEVELOPMENT | |
Self regulation | Has anyone ever told you that you cried a lot when you were an infant and that it was almost impossible to calm you down? |
Has anyone ever told you about feeding problems when you were an infant? | |
When you were a toddler, did you avoid eating certain things? | |
Has anyone ever told you that you had difficulties falling asleep or that you could not sleep through the night? | |
Motor development | How old were you when you started walking? |
When you were a child (between 4 and 5 years old), did you enjoy playing ball, doing rope skipping or other things involving physical exercises? | |
Which of the following sports did you excel in: Endurance runs, track and field athletics, climbing, dancing, artistic gymnastics, soccer, basketball, volleyball, team handball, swimming? | |
Have you ever practiced any kind of team sports for at least a year? When was that? | |
Did you like to do things involving fine motor function, e.g. playing Mikado, building card houses, when you were a child? | |
Have you ever received occupational therapy, hippotherapy or comparable measures? For how long? | |
Speech development | At how many months did you speak first words? |
At how many months did you speak first two-word-sentences? | |
Has anybody ever told you that there was something special about the way you talked? | |
Have you ever had difficulties understanding what other people wanted to tell you? | |
Have you often been told that you never listened/that you often seemed absent-minded? | |
Has anyone ever told you that you had a very elaborate vocabulary when you were a child? | |
Have you ever been treated by a speech therapist? | |
Part 2: DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION | |
Academic performance (proxy for cognitive development) | How old were you at school enrollment? |
Have you ever had to stay down a grade? If yes, which grade? | |
Have you ever skipped a grade? | |
Have you ever had difficulties concentrating? | |
Was there a particular subject or topic that you performed particularly well or poorly at? | |
Quality of social contacts and activities in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood | How did you mostly occupy yourself during the school breaks? |
How were the kindergarten times for you (age 3 to 6 years)? | |
Was in the kindergarten something particularly difficult/unpleasant? | |
What did you like to play in kindergarten times (age 3 to 6 years)? | |
With whom did you play in kindergarten times (age 3 to 6 years)? | |
How were the days in elementary school for you (age 6 to 10 years)? | |
Was there something particularly difficult/unpleasant? | |
Did you have friends when you were 6 to 10 years old? How many? | |
What did you like to do in your leisure time when you were 6 to 10 years old? | |
How were the high school days for you (age 10 to 18 years)? | |
Did you have friends when you were 10 to 18 years old? How many? | |
What did you like to do in your leisure time when you were 10 to 18 years old? | |
Did you suffer from not having friends or from having few friends? | |
Part 3: CURRENT STATUS | |
Daily routines | Now I am interested in your daily routine. Please describe it to me. |
Are there any rigid routines, for instance exact and narrow timing of the steps involved in the dental hygiene or getting dressed? | |
Do certain things belong to a particular place? | |
Do you prepare lists or schedules? Do you enjoy sorting things? Do these lists/schedules serve a certain purpose for you or others? | |
On a scale from 0 to 10, how unpleasant are new situations for you? | |
Why are new situations unpleasant? | |
What do you like to do in your leisure time? | |
On average, how many hours do you spend with a particular topic? | |
Do you like to engage in certain mental routines like counting steps of a staircase or extracting roots? | |
Are there any numbers you particularly like, dislike or that you pay attention to? | |
Relationships to others | Who are the most important people in your life? |
Is it difficult for you to get into contact with others? | |
Why is it difficult to get into contact with others? | |
Is it difficult to maintain a relationship over a longer period of time? | |
Why is it difficult to maintain a relationship over a longer period of time? | |
Do you experience misunderstandings with others very often? | |
What do you think are the reasons for these misunderstandings? | |
Would you like to have more contact to others? |