Validation of the emotion regulation and social skills questionnaire for young people with autism spectrum disorders.

The team built a new rating scale called the ERSSQ. It asks parents and teachers about emotion control and social skills in kids with autism.

They tested 243 autistic youth . They checked if the scores matched other well-known measures.

Both parent and teacher forms lined up well with older social-skills checklists. The tool is ready for clinic use.

Girls scored a bit higher than boys, and younger kids scored higher than older ones.

Tse et al. (2021) built a similar teacher scale for younger Hong Kong pupils. Their LSEAQ-S adds learning-adaptation items and works for, so it extends the ERSSQ downward.

Katz et al. (2018) trimmed the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire for autistic kids using the same factor-analytic method. Both studies show how to shorten and sharpen parent or teacher forms for ASD.

Golan et al. (2010) proved you can boost emotion recognition with a fun video series. The ERSSQ now gives you a quick way to track those social-emotion gains after any intervention.

You now have a free, 27-item checklist that captures both emotion regulation and social skills in one place. Use it at intake, after social-skills groups, or when parents ask, “How is my kid doing?” It takes five minutes and gives numbers you can graph in Excel.