The Social Cognitive Evaluation Battery for Children with Autism: A New Tool for the Assessment of Cognitive and Social Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Table 1
Examples of items taken from the 16 developmental level scales of the SCEB.
Subscales
Examples of items
Social interaction
He or she knows how to solicit the adult (by gesture or verbally) to take part or follow with in a parlor game with or without an object
Behavior regulation
He responds to a simple order
Joint attention
When an adult points to an object, he looks directly at the object indicated
Expressive language
He can comment on his own actions
Comprehensive language
He understands sentences of two familiar words in context.
Vocal imitation
He can imitate familiar noises (car engine, horn, machines etc)
Gesture imitation
He can immediately imitate a gesture that he knows
Affective relation
He recognizes and differentiates his parents
Emotional expression
He smiles at the appearance of an object he wants
Self-image
He can name and indicate the parts of his face
Symbolic play
He can perform playful actions with unrelated objects (e.g., simulating phoning or a flying plane with a pen.)
Object relation schemata
He handles objects in an exploratory way (turning over, shaking, scratching, hitting etc.)
Operational causality
When a mechanical toy stops working, the child looks at it impatiently
Means-ends
He uses the handle of a toy rake to pull a cloth out of a cylinder
Spatial relations
He can fit objects of different shapes into each other
Object permanence
An object hidden under one box is moved in view of the child and hidden under another box, the child immediately finds the object under the second box
