Autism

 

Disease Management Clinical Decisions

Screening and Detecting Early Signs
of Autism Spectrum Disorders
in Children Under Age Three

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Release Date:   November 11, 2010
Expiration Date: November 11, 2012

 

How to Obtain AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit™

  1. Read the suggested readings.
  2. Complete the CME case-based lesson.
  3. Login to your account.
  4. Complete the registration / evaluation form.
  5. Print your personalized CME certificate.

Technical Requirements

Estimated Time of Completion:   15 minutes

Description
Each lesson within the Disease Management Clinical Decisions series includes related reading material, an interactive case, and an evaluation.

Throughout the interactive case-based lesson, you may proceed to the next question once you answer each question correctly. In addition to allowing you to proceed, the correct answer also reveals the rationale for the answer.

Upon completing the CME activity, the evaluation and registration forms, you will have an opportunity to print your CME certificate for your records.

Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

  1. List the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP’s) recommendations on timeline for formal screening for all children using an Autism-Spectrum Disorders (ASD)-specific tool.
  2. Identify early “red flags” of social and language deficits in children with ASD.
  3. Describe the three simultaneous referrals a PCP should make when a child has two or more risk factors on the ASD surveillance and screening algorithm published by the AAP.
  4. Differentiate between the Parents Evaluation of Development Status (PEDS) and Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) clinical utility for ASD screening.

Target Audience
Directed to primary care physicians including family practitioners.

Accreditation
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.

Activity Director
Kenneth Goodman, MD
Associate Director
Center for Continuing Medical Education
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Author / Faculty
Julie Knapp, PhD
Center for Pediatric Behavioral Health
Developmental and Rehabilitation Pediatrics
General Pediatrics
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Disclosure
In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty members have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentations, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Kenneth Goodman, MD
Julie Knapp, PhD

 

This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education.

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