Article History
First Online: 22 June 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The use of data from EarlySteps for research purposes has been approved by both the Louisiana State University Institutional Review Board and the State of Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals Institutional Review Board. All procedures 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. Personal identifiers of EarlySteps participants, including name and date of birth, were removed from the database by the State of Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals before analysis.
: For this type of study, formal consent is not required.
: Deann Matson, Dr. Johnny Matson’s wife, is the sole owner of the Baby and Infant Screen for Children with aUtism Traits (BISCUIT) and sells the scale.