Cognitive Assessment Observation Checklist

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