Research

First Years Inventory (FYI) Pilot Study to Culturally Diverse Populations in Los Angeles

This study aims to add new data to our team’s ongoing research to identify early risk markers of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and develop better screening tools for infants in the general population. In our previous study in North Carolina, approximately 7000 parents of infants between 8 and 16 months of age completed the First Years Inventory (FYI; Baranek et al., 2013), which is an early screening tool designed to identify infants at risk for later diagnosis of ASD.  However, the majority of the participants from this North Carolina sample were English-speaking European Americans, thus normative data is not generalizable to other languages or ethnic groups in diverse urban communities, such as Los Angeles. This pilot research study will extend collection of normative data to include Spanish-speaking families, primarily of Hispanic/Latino/a ethnicity in the Greater Los Angeles area.