An Autism Screening Expert System: Reliability, Validity and Factorial Structure

Maryam Mahmoudi^1*, Saeed Akbari-Zardkhaneh², Amir Ali Bagher Zadeh³, Bagher Ghobari-Bonab¹, Mohsen Shokoohi-Yekta¹, Hadi Moradi⁴ and Hamid Reza Pouretemad²

¹Department of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, E-mail: s_zardkhaneh@sbu.ac.ir

²Department of Psychology and Education, University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran, E-mail: s_zardkhaneh@sbu.ac.ir

³School of Computer Science, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, E-mail: s_zardkhaneh@sbu.ac.ir

⁴Machine Intelligence and Robotics School, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, E-mail: s_zardkhaneh@sbu.ac.ir

^*Corresponding Author: Maryam Mahmoudi, Department of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Tel: +98-21-6111-7451 Email:

Keywords: Children with autism; Expert system; Screening; Validity

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