Affirming Autism Assessment for Health Practitioners

🌟 Affirming Autism Assessment in Allied Health: A Webinar for Meaningful Change 🌟

It’s time to reimagine autism assessment.

This webinar is for allied health professionals ready to move beyond traditional, deficit-based diagnostic frameworks toward an affirming, educational, and person-centred approach to autism assessment.

We’ll explore how to conduct assessments that are both evidence-informed and deeply respectful of neurodivergent experiences—focusing on function, communication, and lived experience, rather than pathology.

💡 What You’ll Learn

This session will showcase a practical, flexible model that combines:

• The MIGDAS-2 (Monteiro Interview Guidelines for Diagnosing the Autism Spectrum – Second Edition): a qualitative, strengths-based interview framework

• Quantitative tools like the CCC-2 (Children’s Communication Checklist) and SRS-2 (Social Responsiveness Scale – Second Edition)

• An affirming, collaborative process that includes families and individuals as experts in their own experience

• How we can use systems and processes, including reporting, to highlight strengths and differences

Together, these tools provide a holistic picture of each person’s unique communication profile, sensory needs, and social interaction style.

Importantly, we’ll highlight how assessment itself can be a therapeutic and educational experience—empowering families and individuals with insight, language, and clarity, regardless of diagnosis.

🎯 This Webinar is Designed For:

• Speech pathologists, occupational therapists, psychologists, and medical practitioners with an interest in diagnostic assessments

• Students and early career clinicians wanting to practice in a neurodiversity-affirming way

• Anyone seeking to build confidence in conducting respectful, effective autism assessments, or even to learn more about the language we can use and the processes we can develop to ensure affirming and safe assessment experiences

🧠 Why This Matters

Traditional autism assessment often prioritises ticking diagnostic boxes over understanding lived experience. But when we blend structured tools with sensitive, strengths-based inquiry, we create something powerful:
🔹 Assessments that inform, not define
🔹 Language that connects, not pathologises
🔹 Processes that educate and empower, not alienate

This approach improves not just outcomes—but the experience of being assessed.

📍 Online (Zoom link provided upon registration)
🎟️ Optional purchase of our detailed assessment template available

Keep an eye out for our LIVE Q&A on Tuesday 26th August from 7-8pm, Brisbane Time