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ASDetect

For parents and caregivers. Credible, award-winning early Autism detection with ASDetect.

Based on the SACS method, ASDetect is a free mobile app that guides parents and carers through age-appropriate assessments, using videos of children both with and without Autism to illustrate questions about social communication milestones. This is for children aged 11 to 30 months. Parents receive an on-screen result of either 'low' or 'high' likelihood of Autism, and a comprehensive formal assessment results email, which they can take to their family doctor.

ASDetect is based on over a decade of research conducted at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre at La Trobe University, Australia. The Autism assessment method developed in this research is 83% accurate, which is more than 13 times more accurate than the next best tool.

With over 126,000 downloads since it's launch in February 2016, ASDetect is available in English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Slovak, bringing this groundbreaking early detection research to parents and caregivers around the world.

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WORLD-CLASS

  • Over a decade of community-based research
  • Two large-scale studies with more than 30,000 children
  • 1,500 trained Maternal and Child Health nurses
  • Based on a developmental surveillance tool adopted globally across more than 16 countries.

ACCURATE

Associate Professor Barbaro has developed an accurate set of behavioural signs of autism, which form the basis of the assessments in ASDetect.

EVIDENCE BASED

All papers on the SACS and ASDetect program are available in PubMed, or you can email us at ask@asdetect.org for a copy.

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