How is autistic spectrum disorder assessed?
ADI-R: The gold standard for assessing autistic spectrum disorder.
The first time I heard the unfamiliar term “assessment scale” was shortly after I entered training school to become a physiotherapist.
An assessment scale is a collection of testing methods used in diagnostic work to objectively find out the specific type and degree of the symptoms of the patient’s illness.
For example, dementia, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease are extremely complicated conditions, but if a patient is assessed using the assessment scale created for the relevant affliction, you can find out relatively quickly the specific characteristics of the patient’s illness and which symptoms are more or less severe.
Autistic spectrum disorder also has a variety of symptoms, each with a range of severity, and the assessment scale frequently used to assess it is ADI-R (Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised).
What is ADI-R?
In autistic spectrum disorder, mainly communication and behavior patterns have peculiar forms, but with ADI-R, investigators ask caregivers questions about three areas:
- qualitative abnormalities in reciprocal social interaction,
- qualitative abnormalities in communication, and
- restricted, repetitive, or stereotypical behavior patterns
The applicable age ranges widely from 2 years old to adults, and using this assessment scale allows investigators to find out details of children’s autistic spectrum disorder tendencies.
I found that there are many different assessment methods.
Please see the link below for further information.
https://www.blog.crn.or.jp/lab/04/11.html
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The fact that people are odd has been my motivation for reading all kinds of books and papers.
This indicates that I, with a somewhat autistic brain, find the behavior of people with normal development to be peculiar. I honestly must question what is normal about people with normal development, when there are those who love each other and then turn around and kill each other, who blindly follow symbolic social rules and authorities that are meaningless (to me), and who are afraid to dive into the thoughts inside their heads.
It seemed to me that the survival of people with autistic spectrum disorder over the process of evolution is because having people who can see and say that “the emperor has no clothes” in a society is necessary to increase the fitness of the human species.
