Project objectives: (a) To train a minimum of 400 primary health care professionals on early identification of autism using the SACS-R (100 in each of four catchment areas with approximately 10,000 babies born anually); (b) To follow up cases identified as at risk, at 6-monthly intervals in Victoria and Western Australia, until 24 months and at 36 months of age; establish rates of specificity, sensitivity, as well as positive and negative predictive values of the SACS-R approach to early identification; ( c) To establish the barriers and enablers in implementing SACS-R in Victoria and Western Australia; (d) to recruit into the Autism Biobank.
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Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism