r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jan 30 '25

Neuroscience 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/
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u/plinocmene Jan 30 '25

Doesn't dyspraxia more specifically effect motor planning while this isn't even a symptom but rather a sign of autism? So then a study seeing if there is a difference between dyspraxia without autism and autism either with or without dyspraxia would be even more interesting.

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u/TangentGlasses Jan 30 '25

Good question, although they could have a different profile, as it's coordination that's the issue, not the ability to imitate.