Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC). ASD
If a person is younger than 2 years old, the test is irrelevant. You shouldn't expect a six-month-old baby to "Can use sentences with 4 or more words", for instance.
This test contains 4 chapters:
I. Speech / Language / Communication
II. Sociability
III. Sensory / Cognitive Awareness
IV. Health / Physical / Behavior
It basically provides several subscale scores as well as a total score to be used for comparison at a later date.
Generally, the lower the score, the fewer the problems.
You can pass the checklist regularly and compare the results via the graph to track dynamics. App results will be more reliable if several persons contacting with a child with ASD will pass the checklist for one day. It gives average scores per day to compare later.
Important! The ATEC is not a medical diagnostic checklist to prove if someone has ASD. Contact specialists in your city for an accurate diagnosis if you have more than 15-20 scores.
Category : Parenting
Reviews (16)
This is a great app to help maintain focus in specific areas of interest helping that overwhelmed feeling when a million resources are being thrown at you. Helps to focus in on the SPECIFIC needs of your child/children when the amount of "help" out there is so vast and so little of it pertains to MY CHILD'S challenges. Time is VERY precious to parents of children with autism challenges. This helps weed through what's not relevant to us.
Reviewing as an adult with autism in response to both this app and reading the backlash in your reviews. I would like to say that while I think some of this backlash is overboard (this is a very useful app for parents who get unessacary backlash for providing helpful therapy to their autistic children, often times in their journey finding that they too are autistic) the only problem is you still have not removed autism speaks references.
I like the app it is easy to complete the questions but it should have different age appropriate questions to diagnose adults and children. This app is just for children but it makes no obvious awareness before you start. Not everyone has the fortune of being diagnosed in childhood
Very important and useful, quick tool. Actually, it should be a national programme to promote it particularly in the areas where parents do not have access to basic advice .
You have questions that I don't understand the words and/or words in that sentence because I have a comprehension of a 5 yrs old (I'm 43yrs old) and I need it to be broken down for a 3yr old, and the answer does not make any sense because I don't understand if I'm doing it right because you don't have a "?" to click on to explaining what you mean or how to answer! Please fix this problem and respond to this message on your app review please 🙏!
I am pretty shocked at your unprofessional dick responses to the critical reviews so I'm leaving this one star because I think you are trashy and seem very unsympathetic for someone creating an app that is meant to benefit autistic persons. My advice? Get over yourself.
P. S. Thank you for your reply, I am a mother of a kid with autism, bringing him from low functioning to high functioning. I am just telling you that this questionnaire does not work. No age is mentioned and this can also confuse parents. I like your work and attempts. Pls contact me, we might do some apps together. I have a lot to share.
Great app, accurate and easy to use
This is for worrying mothers that love their phones... do not use, you should of been to a doctor by now if your asking these questions, how is this app allowed
This app is very stereotypical and ableist with the questions
Wrong and stereotypical questions. NOT FOR ACTUALLY AUTISTIC INDIVIDUALS.
Good test.... Very apt.
REMOVE THE AUTISM SPEAKS LINK!! THEY ARE LITERALLY A HATE GROUP BY PROMOTING THEM YOU ARE PROMOTING HATE!!! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS.
I Have Asperger's Syndrome!!!
Ditch the puzzle piece.
had to download to write a review but i dont plan on keeping the app. the title is centered around treating autism like its a disease, which its not. secondly, violence isnt something that comes with autism like the sample question implied. the tests dont have enough questions to get real answers. then showing the graph going down made it look like you wanted the child to be less autistic. it even had the graph divided into sections like moderate and mild when there is no more or less autistic.