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Cognitive Assessment Observation Checklist
Developed by Lydia Meem, Clinical Psychologist at Autism Understanding
This is a free tool for psychologists to use during autism assessments and includes behaviours to observe before writing reports and making referrals.
Behaviours often associated with:
- rapport/interest in the assessor
- eye contact/joint attention
- response to change in routine
- performance anxiety/learning difficulties/coping with mistakes
- weak central coherence/detail focus
- self-directed vs following your lead
- invents own rules/ignores instructions
- cognitive inflexibility/rituals
- special interests/tangential thinking
- visual problem solving
- social insight
- sensory overload/sensory seeking
- hyperactive/impulsive/repetitive motion
- negative responding/absconding
- spiky/scattered subtest profile