About Our Survey

Autism can be diagnosed through the use of a behavioral exam named the "Autism Diagnostic Interview – Revised" or ADI-R. However, because this survey is long – it has 93 questions and can take up to 2.5 hours to complete – the diagnosis process can be prohibitive. We have designed a substantially shorter exam of 7 questions that we believe may be as effective as the ADI-R.

Should this prove to be true, we may be able to help healthcare providers diagnose children with autism more rapidly—enabling children to receive valuable therapy that is more in tune with the timing of their development and more likely to have a positive outcome. To determine if our abbreviated exam is effective we need your help.

Since we are still refining the survey and collecting data, you will not receive an individual diagnosis as a result of completing the questionnaire. Instead, your answers will provide us with valuable data that we can analyze to judge the general performance of the survey. Subscribe to our newsletter to keep informed of the development and effectiveness of our survey (plus other research we do on autism).

If you are a care provider for a person with autism, your answers to the few questions in the following survey will tell us whether our exam actually works. It will take no more than 10 minutes of your time.

If you have questions or comments please contact us.