Autism Research Database - Location Project Details

Project Element	Element Description
Project Title Project Title	Developmental surveillance SACS-R
Principal Investigator Principal Investigator	Dissanayake, Cheryl
Description Description	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.
Funder Funder	Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism
Funding Country Funding Country	Australia
Fiscal Year Funding Fiscal Year Funding	301756
Current Award Period Current Award Period	2016-2019
Strategic Plan Question Strategic Plan Question	Question 1: How Can I Recognize the Signs of ASD, and Why is Early Detection So Important?
Funder’s Project Link Funder’s Project Link	External Project Page
Institution Institution	La Trobe University
Institute Location Institute Location	Australia
Project Number Project Number	1.005RC
Government or Private Government or Private	Private
History/Related Projects History/Related Projects	N/A