Form: Childhood Autism Spectrum Test, CAST

Childhood Autism Spectrum Test, CAST
male form | female form
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Yes
No
1
Does she join in playing games with other children easily?
2
Does she come up to you spontaneously for a chat?
3
Was she speaking by 2 years old?
4
Does she enjoy sports?
5
Is it important to her to fit in with the peer group?
6
Does she appear to notice unusual details that others miss?
7
Does she tend to take things literally?
8
When she was 3 years old, did she spend a lot of time pretending (e.g., play-acting being a superhero, or holding teddy's tea parties)?
9
Does she like to do things over and over again, in the same way all the time?
10
Does she find it easy to interact with other children?
11
Can she keep a two-way conversation going?
12
Can she read appropriately for her age?
13
Does she mostly have the same interests as her peers?
14
Does she have an interest which takes up so much time that she does little else?
15
Does she have friends, rather than just acquaintances?
16
Does she often bring you things she is interested in to show you?
17
Does she enjoy joking around?
18
Does she have difficulty understanding the rules for polite behaviour?
19
Does she appear to have an unusual memory for details?
20
Is her voice unusual (e.g., overly adult, flat, or very monotonous)?
21
Are people important to her?
22
Can she dress herself?
23
Is she good at turn-taking in conversation?
24
Does she play imaginatively with other children, and engage in role-play?
25
Does she often do or say things that are tactless or socially inappropriate?
26
Can she count to 50 without leaving out any numbers?
27
Does she make normal eye-contact?
28
Does she have any unusual and repetitive movements?
29
Is her social behaviour very one-sided and always on her own terms?
30
Does she sometimes say «you» or «she» when she means «I»?
31
Does she prefer imaginative activities such as play-acting or story-telling, rather than numbers or lists of facts?
32
Does she sometimes lose the listener because of not explaining what she is talking about?
33
Can she ride a bicycle (even if with stabilisers)?
34
Does she try to impose routines on herself, or on others, in such a way that it causes problems?
35
Does she care how she is perceived by the rest of the group?
36
Does she often turn conversations to her favorite subject rather than following what the other person wants to talk about?
37
Does she have odd or unusual phrases?