CAST: ASPERGER SYNDROME TEST

FOR CHILDREN
Nombre __________________________________________________
F.Nacimiento____________________Edad _______años_______meses.
F.Cumplimentación__________________Puntuación ______________
Implemented by _______________________________________________

Yes No
1 Do you find it easy to participate in games with other children?
2 Does he/she spontaneously approach you for conversation?
3 Did the child begin to speak before the age of two?
4 Do you like sports?
Does the child attach importance to getting along with other
5
children of the same age and looking like them?
6 Do you notice unusual details that other children do not notice?
7 Do you learn to understand things that are said literally?
At the age of three, did you spend a lot of time imaginatively
8 playing make-believe games? For example, imagining he was a
superhero, or organizing a snack for his stuffed animals.
9 Do you like to do things repeatedly and the same way all the time?
10 Do you find it easy to interact with other children?
11 Are you able to have a reciprocal conversation?
12 Do you read in an age-appropriate manner?
Does he/she have the same interests, in general, as other children of
13
the same age?
Do you have an interest that keeps you busy for so long that the
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child does nothing else?
15 Do you have friends and not just "acquaintances"?
Does he often bring you things he is interested in with the intention
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of showing them to you?
17 Do you like to joke?
Do you have any difficulty understanding the rules of polite
18
behavior?
19 Do you seem to have an exceptional memory for detail?
Is the child's voice peculiar (too adult, flattened and very
20
monotonous)?

Yes No
21 Are people important to him?
22 Can you dress yourself?
23 Do you show a good ability to wait for turns in a conversation?
Does the child play imaginatively with other children and
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engage in social role-play?
Do you often make comments that are impertinent, indiscreet or
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socially inappropriate?
26 Can you count to fifty without skipping numbers?
27 Do you maintain normal eye contact?
28 Does it show any unusual repetitive movements?
Is your social behavior very one-sided and always according to
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your own rules and conditions?
Do you sometimes use the pronouns "you" and "he/she" instead
30
of "I"?
Do you prefer imaginative activities, such as fiction games and
31
stories, rather than numbers or lists of information?
In a conversation, do you sometimes confuse the interlocutor by
32
not explaining what you are talking about?
33 Can you ride a bicycle (even with stabilizer wheels)?
Do you try to impose your routines on yourself or others in a
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way that causes problems?
Does the child care about the opinion the rest of the group has of
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him?
Do you often steer the conversation toward your topics of
36 interest rather than continuing with what the other person wants
to talk about?
37 Do you use unusual or strange phrases?

CAST: ASPERGER'S SYNDROME TEST FOR CHILDREN

The test questions have been extracted from the book by Pilar Martín Borreguero, El
síndrome de Asperger, ¿Excentridad o discapacidad social? .

How to interpret the result?

The Children's Asperger Syndrome Test has proven useful in the early identification of
children, between the ages of four and eleven, whose behaviors suggest a high risk for
the presence of Asperger Syndrome. Each question can provide 0 or 1 point, but there
are six questions that do not score. Therefore, the maximum possible score is 31 points.
A total score of 15 or higher would be indicative of the presence of behaviors that
would warrant a diagnostic assessment by a health professional. The questionnaire has
37 questions. Please answer all of them.