r/Autism_Parenting • u/sarahj313 • Jan 30 '25
Diagnosis A low-cost tool accurately distinguishes neurotypical children from children with autism just by watching them copy the dance moves of an on-screen avatar for a minute. It can even tell autism from ADHD, conditions that commonly overlap.
https://newatlas.com/adhd-autism/autism-motion-detection-diagnosis/22
u/tvtb Jan 30 '25
I read the story and the only mentions of ages is that this starts at age 7. So not for young kids
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u/MamaLovesTwoBoys Jan 30 '25
Seems appropriate as older kids that “slide by” may have several years of masking already. My older son slid past until mid 1st grade.
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u/ennuimachine Jan 30 '25
I would love for my child to try this even though I know he's autistic. Hell, I want to try it. I just want to see if it really can clock him.
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u/BitchInBoots666 Jan 31 '25
Tbh my boys nearly 7 and there's no way... He just wouldn't. He'd probably understand what he was meant to do, at least to some extent. But actually doing it... Lol.
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u/Positive_Motor5644 Jan 31 '25
As a parent of an kid with lvl1 asd and extreme combined presentation of adhd, I love this. This would absolutely diagnose his mild autism. My lvl 3 guy would probably just unplug the screen and wack people with the cord. I never really realized the importance of imitation and how poorly both of my kids do with that skill.
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u/Southern_Banana3082 Jan 31 '25
My son has autism and he imitates dance moves and things but his social cues are just in the toilet 😂 we’re working on it. He asked his teacher the other day “how are you” and he hears us say that to him all the times
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u/missmatchedcleansox Jan 31 '25
My son wouldnt do it because he wouldnt want to. Then he would give me a death glare and walk away to play with his trains.
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u/Far_Needleworker27 Jan 30 '25
Nice! It is interesting thank you for sharing. My question is if this could be applied to toddlers primarily 1-2 years of age since this is where Autism is mostly assessed.
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u/mimisiku159 Jan 30 '25
Seems like it’s for 7-13 year olds. Not sure how you would get a nonverbal toddler to copy a dance for a minute. My son is 3 and still would not participate in this.
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u/sarahj313 Jan 30 '25
There seems to be some really great discussions going on in the original post, I would ask there and maybe you'll get some answers.
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u/Key-Crow459 Jan 31 '25
I knew for a decade that severely autistic children don’t copy planned motor movements, it’s not about a “mind-body” disconnect but rather the social impairment nature of severe autism where they are not motivated to observe others (therefore mirroring typical behavior) in order to copy motor planned movements they need to pay attention to the source, and they are not motivated
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u/buntypieface Jan 31 '25
An interesting thing i heard on a podcast last week was that some kids with asd, once able to communicate, say that they have difficulty with the mind-body connection. Perhaps it's one of them or both.
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u/Key-Crow459 Jan 31 '25
“once able to communicate” . Nothing wrong about that statement unless the method of communication is a fraud known as Facilitaded Communication and its variants of RPM / S2C . The principle of those methods is that nonverbal autistic children are not cognitively disabled, just “physically” challenged (mind body disconnect) . They basically are made to say : “ ignore our behavior,ignore our minimal oral expression, ignore our body language. Only the communication from the letterboard passed through the facilitator is what matters “ . If you sense something wrong about that, it’s because it is
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u/buntypieface Jan 31 '25
Having listened to The Telepathy Tapes podcast, I'm all for using a spelling tool. It's certainly opened up communication for some parents and their asd children. I'm not here with an opinion on which I'm inferring what I say is absolute and the only right answer. I'm here for discussion and learning from others.
Peace ✌️
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u/Key-Crow459 Jan 31 '25
You said it yourself. You “listened” not “watched” it . If you pay to watch the actual telepathy videos (unless you don’t pay attention) the spellers (besides some having their letterboard held in the air by the parents) were all physically or gesturally manipulated by the moms . Anyone who bothers to look at it attentively can notice. Zero effort to actually test anything by blinding the parents or remove them from the room , it’s a scam
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u/SignificantRing4766 Mom/Daughter 5 yo/level 3, pre verbal/Midwestern USA Jan 30 '25
Raise your hand if your child wouldn’t even understand or be able to copy the dance moves on the screen ✋🏻