Profiles of parent-teacher discrepancy on autistic children's adaptive functioning.

Clinical guidelines recommend collecting reports from multiple informants when identifying and diagnosing challenges in children. The current study examined parent-teacher discrepancies in rating of autistic children's adaptive functioning and how these related to children's executive functions. Participants (n = 194) were a subsample of autistic children (mean age = 9.2 years; 86% male) from the Pathways in ASD cohort. We used latent profile …