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Test–retest reliability of the IDT was not analyzed. 2012a, b), the pilot study lacked essential information. Despite strong evidence for its sensitivity (Backer van Ommeren et al. Children with a developmental age of 6 years likely have required enough social skills and fine motor skills needed for an adequate IDT performance. The IDT is suitable for a wide age range, from 6 years old up to adulthood, and requires minimal verbal skills.

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In addition, the IDT codes reciprocal turn taking behavior and flexibility in response to additions by the researcher to the participants’ own drawing objects, providing a full perspective on the reciprocal interaction. This is referred to as “reciprocity in other’s initiative”.

For example, when the researcher initiated an object (e.g., a car), participants with ASD were less inclined to contribute to the researcher’s object (e.g., by drawing a steering wheel in the car). A pilot study indicated that participants with ASD showed particularly low reciprocity when objects were initiated by the researcher (Backer van Ommeren et al. The test also registers who initiates a drawing object. The joint contribution of both participants to meaningful objects in the drawing is referred to with reciprocal drawing. For instance, one participant may add apples to a drawing of a tree, and the other participant may draw a ladder. Reciprocal behavior (“reciprocal drawing”) during the interaction process is reflected by the relative frequency that participants contribute meaningful elements to a mutual drawing object. The test relies on the detailed coding of the behaviors of two people (the participant and the researcher) during the creation of a mutual drawing. The IDT is an interactive test procedure designed to elicit reciprocal behavior. The IDT was developed to add to these assessment tools for reciprocity by providing not only a specific assessment of the presence of reciprocal behavior and but also an assessment of the quality of reciprocal behavior. The ADOS and other current instruments thus provide extensive information about vital social skills for reciprocity and include, among other domains, the presence of reciprocal behavior as outcome measure. The ADOS is designed to create multiple and diverse opportunities for reciprocal interactions, which can be observed and rated. Clinicians generally rely on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS Lord et al. 2010, the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, M-CHAT (Robins et al. In addition, several other surveying assessment tools provide proxies for social reciprocity, such as the Childhood Autism Rating Scale second edition, CARS-2 (Schopler et al. 2003) include descriptions of reciprocal behavior, e.g., “your child avoids initiating social interaction with peers or adults” or “your child is awkward in turn taking during interactions” (SRS). 2006) and questionnaires (e.g., the Social Responsiveness Scale, SRS Constantino and Gruber 2005, the Social Communication Questionnaire, SCQ Rutter et al. For instance, some items of parent interviews (e.g., the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised, ADI-R Rutter et al. When relying on currently available clinical assessment tools, reciprocal behavior of children with ASD can be measured based on specific elements of parent reports or clinician observations. This study tests the reliability and validity of the IDT in a large sample of children and adolescents with and without ASD. The Interactive Drawing Task (IDT) is, to our knowledge, the first instrument designed to specifically assess the level and quality of reciprocal behavior. Despite the central role of reciprocal behavior in the definition and diagnostic criteria of autism, direct measures of real life reciprocity are rare. The DSM-5 specifies the deficits in reciprocity of individuals with ASD as “ranging from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back-and-forth conversation to reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions” (APA 2013, p. The DSM-5 includes deficits in reciprocity as a necessary criterion for an ASD diagnosis, whereas the DSM-IV included it as a possible criterion (APA 2000, 2013). Reciprocity is defined as the participation in a dynamic process of mutual, equal or complementary interaction and sharing with another person (Gallagher 2004 Gernsbacher 2006 Komorita et al. Poor reciprocity is a defining feature of an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

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