As technology improves, medical screening does too. A new screening tool that physicians administer to parents to help determine if a child at a very young age has autism has been shown to be much more accurate than earlier versions at identifying children, this is important, due to the fact of which earlier diagnosis in a child means earlier start on therapy, like physical, speech and cognitive. In this article they discuss the diagnostic accuracy of the "Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers—Revised”, and screening tools used to detect children likely to have autism.
