Online autism screening test
For adults
Autism screening can play an important role in your journey to better understand yourself and may inform your decision to pursue a formal diagnosis or seek other supports.
How should this autism screening tool be used?
Autism screening can play an important role in your journey to better understand yourself and may inform your decision to pursue a formal diagnosis or seek other supports. The symptoms of autism often overlap with other diagnoses especially ADHD, anxiety, OCD, and depression and it can be very challenging to tease them apart.
Further, challenges associated with being autistic in a world designed for neurotypical people can lead to depression and anxiety.
Avela Health’s clinicians have developed this guide to help you better understand yourself as you consider pursuing a formal diagnosis.
What are common signs of autism?
In order to be diagnosed with autism, a person must show the following:
- Differences in use and/or understanding of communication and social emotional reciprocity or back in forth interaction
- Differences in use and/or understanding of nonverbal communication
- Differences in the experience of developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships
- And, at least two of the following four characteristics:
- Repetitive motor movements, repeating words or phrases, repetitive use of objects
- Strong preference for sameness, particular routines, or particular patterns of behavior
- Enthusiastic or particular passions, hobbies, or interests unusual in intensity and/or focus
- Increased or decreased reactivity to sensory input or unusual interest in sensory aspects of the environment.
The way these characteristics present can vary greatly between different people. This screener has been designed to help you identify possible signs of autism.
