2.2.1  Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
The ADOS-G (Lord et al., 2000) and ADOS-2 (Rutter et al., 2012) are semi-structured clinical assessments for diagnosing and assessing ASD. Research-reliable team members administered either module 3 or module 4 of the ADOS-G or ADOS-2 to all eligible participants with ASD. The mean and standard deviation of total scores (ADOS and ADOS-2 pooled) were 11.30 ± 3.30, which was well above the clinical threshold.