Your child can help us find objective and reliable ways to measure social development and communication in preschool-age children. Our hope is that these measures will improve our ability to measure whether therapies are effective for autistic children.

• We are recruiting autistic children and those who are not autistic, ages 3-5 years, to help us find better ways to diagnosis autism and track progress of interventions. 
• Participants receive in-person diagnostic, social, communication, and cognitive assessments from our Duke Center for Autism psychologists.
• Open to preschool-age children, we are partnering with Yale, Harvard, UCLA, and the University of Washington to create new measures of children’s social and communication skill.

Parents - You will receive a detailed report about your child's skills and behavior at no cost. 

The Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC-CT) Preschool Study will help researchers create a set of objective measures (called “biomarkers”) to help clinicians develop and assess interventions for children on the autism spectrum. Your child will help scientists learn which therapies are best for which children. 

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