Help Us Understand Your Child’s Social Skills: Stanford Social Dimension’s Scale 2 Study

This new research study aims to help develop and validate a new questionnaire called the Stanford Social Dimensions Scale-2. This scale aims to measure individual differences in social skills between children in different clinical populations.

Parents and their children – with their parent/guardian’s consent – can participate if they are…
+ Between the ages of 5 and 17 years old
+ With or without a neurodevelopmental or neuropsychiatric diagnosis
+ Willing to complete online tasks within a couple of weeks and participate in on-site assessments or MRI brain scan (if eligible).

All participating families will complete online parent surveys and computer-based tasks for their child(ren), with a child cognitive assessment administered via Zoom. This component will take around 1 hour for parents to complete, and 1.5 hours for children to complete.
Some families may be invited to come to Stanford for in-person behavioral assessments and a parent diagnostic interview, which will take around 1 hour for children, and 2-3 hours for their parents.
Additionally, depending on eligibility some families may be invited to attend an MRI brain scan at Stanford, which would require an additional 1.5-2 hours of participation.

This study will further validate the Stanford Social Dimensions Scale 2 (SSDS-2), a new questionnaire measure designed to help researchers better understand individual differences in different aspects of social functioning and motivation across diverse clinical populations. Participating in this research will allow researchers and clinicians to gain knowledge that will help increase their ability to assess social behaviors and to develop effective supports.