#diagnostic-assessment

#diagnostic-assessment

This category describes autistic people who have little or no language (spoken, written, signed or via a communication device), who have an IQ of less than 50, and who require 24-hour supervision and support. It would only apply to children aged eight and over, when their cognitive and communication abilities are considered more stable. In our new study, we considered how the category could impact autism assessments. We found 24% of autistic children met, or were at risk of meeting, the criteria for profound autism.

An AI-informed supervision is constantly reminded to treat speech as metaphorical and not literal, since humans, including therapy patients, are very good poets and very bad reporters. AI never forgets to inquire why at this moment this thought occurred to the patient. It never forgets to consider projective identification -the communication of an intolerable feeling by getting the therapist to feel it. It never forgets to consider a lose-lose comment during a frame deviation.