Portillo, Nora L.
Thammathorn, Looknoo Patcharapon
Buitrago, Luisa MarĂa
Carter, Alice S.
Sheldrick, Radley Christopher
Eisenhower, Abbey https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3598-3759
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Resources and Services Administration (R40MC26195)
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH104400)
Article History
Accepted: 9 October 2024
First Online: 28 October 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The current study was approved by the University of Massachusetts Boston Institutional Review Board.
: Informed consent was obtained from individual parent participants included in the study. Children did not provide assent due to their very young age.
: Dr. Sheldrick and Dr. Carter are two of the co-creators of the POSI, which is one of the two initial screeners used to identify the children who went on to receive autism diagnoses in the larger study. They conduct research related to this instrument but receive no royalties. Dr. Carter is also co-creator of the BITSEA, which is the second initial screener used in the larger study. Dr. Carter receives royalties on the sale of the BITSEA, which is distributed by MAPI Research Trust.