To document perspective taking evidence and limits, report Sage's practical decision, people, observable information histories, task and response definitions, language and cognitive demands, accessible modes, control items, direct reports, mutual interpretations, and uncertainty. Show raw counts, contexts, comparisons, alternative explanations, and design limits. Name the qualified interpretation, action, and reassessment trigger. Keep every conclusion tied to reproducible evidence instead of inferred private states.

Lead with Sage's decision and authority

State the practical question, Sage's priority, qualified interpreter, contributors, dates, settings, consent route, assent when applicable, and any immediate access, privacy, safety, or legal action.

Show information and task provenance

Present person-specific information histories, task versions, language and cognitive demands, response modes, controls, prompts, invalidity, missingness, and corrections.

Report mutual interpretation

Show Sage's response, partner interpretation, direct confirmation, clarification, repair, confidence, ambiguity, and practical outcome without making either person's first impression ground truth.

State alternatives and design limits

Describe language, memory, inhibition, spatial transformation, task familiarity, culture, relationship, access, observer assumptions, masking pressure, and design strength. Mixed or unavailable remains valid.

Use this sequence to document evidence

Lead with Sage's decision, preserve provenance, report units and controls, include direct reports, show mutual interpretation, state uncertainty and alternatives, record the action, and set a meaningful trigger.

Build Sage's perspective-taking evidence report

Create one versioned perspective-taking evidence report for the community archive coordination project. Include Sage's priority, people, information histories, task and response definitions, language, memory, inhibition, spatial and motor demands, accessible modes, controls, direct reports, mutual interpretations, uncertainty, context, privacy, client experience, invalidity, missingness, withdrawal, evidence limits, qualified owner, correction, and reassessment trigger. Store only decision-relevant information with role-limited access.

Validate Sage's evidence

Reproduce 30 events, four missing histories, two control failures, 24 interpretable, 17 supported, four ambiguous, two clarifications, one unsupported, and 15/19 partner confirmations after supported or clarified exchanges. Verify provenance, task, demands, modes, controls, reports, uncertainty, contexts, alternatives, and ownership.

Connect Sage's evidence to a decision

Sage's conclusion table links every supported claim to a bounded action. The report can support clearer information records, accessible language, confirmation, shared displays, partner changes, specialist input, a narrow follow-up, or closure.

Work through Sage's example

Sage reviews 30 archive-coordination events. Four lack a reliable information history and two fail language controls, leaving 24 interpretable events. Sage gives 17 evidence-supported responses, marks four as ambiguous, requests clarification twice, and gives one unsupported answer. Partners confirm mutual understanding in 15/19 supported or clarified exchanges. Each denominator stays distinct. Preserve every planned and interpretable event, person-specific information history, task and response version, language and cognitive demand, accessible mode, control result, direct report, partner interpretation, uncertainty, access and health state, withdrawal, invalid event, correction, and unresolved item. This fictional example demonstrates one assessment control. It supplies no diagnosis, global theory-of-mind score, empathy judgment, treatment effect, legal conclusion, coverage decision, or outcome guarantee for Sage.

Address Sage's main interpretation risk

Reporting 17 correct perspective responses omits invalid histories, controls, ambiguity, and repair. Calling 15/19 empathy confuses partner confirmation with a private trait. A polished narrative cannot prove beliefs, feelings, or intentions that the evidence does not establish. Review information access, task language, memory, inhibition, spatial transformation, response mode, partner behavior, culture, relationship, context, health, fatigue, privacy, masking pressure, preference, direct experience, and design strength separately. A convincing task sequence cannot make an unsafe, inaccessible, unwanted, unauthorized, or appearance-based social goal clinically appropriate.

Keep scope and authority clear for Sage

For Sage's perspective-taking evidence report, the CASP public summary supplies high-level ABA behavioral-health-treatment scope for autistic people, with licensed detail outside this page. The current BACB Ethics Code addresses competence, client involvement, consent and assent when applicable, assessment, medical needs, risk, data, documentation, and evaluation for covered people. The BACB outline is examination content. These sources supply no individualized theory-of-mind diagnosis, private-state access, empathy judgment, legal authority, or requirement that Sage perform a typical social style.

Treat theory-of-mind task claims cautiously for Sage

Gernsbacher and Yergeau critically review claims that autistic people lack theory of mind and summarize substantial language demands in false-belief, Strange Stories, and Reading-the-Mind-in-the-Eyes tasks. A syntax-training study found that changing linguistic skill can change false-belief task performance in its child sample. These sources support auditing language and task demands for Sage. They do not show that language explains every result or that any task reveals a person's full understanding, caring, or empathy.

Keep visual perspective tied to the tested relation for Sage

The visual-perspective review distinguishes spatial and social information and discusses variation across Level 1 and Level 2 tasks. A camera-based reaching study manipulated visual perspective during a motor task and found group differences in its specific child sample. These sources show that spatial transformation, proprioception, response method, and task design can matter. They supply no universal visual-perspective deficit, clinical cutoff, or everyday prognosis for Sage.

Assess mutual understanding rather than one-sided mind reading for Sage

Jones and colleagues used nonautistic observers to rate recorded same- and mixed-neurotype adult interactions. Observers underestimated some autistic participants' partner-reported trust and intelligence and rated mixed interactions least successful overall. The study supports treating social understanding as relational and checking participant reports. Its all-adult video-rating design does not establish how any individual partner will understand Sage.

Preserve assent and communication access for Sage

Breaux and Smith propose individualized assent and withdrawal practices while describing an evolving evidence base. Their paper is practice guidance rather than a separate BACB mandate. ASHA's AAC portal says AAC users should always have access to their tools or devices. Give Sage an accessible way to answer, explain, question, mark ambiguity, disagree, pause, or withdraw. Do not require speech, eye contact, guessing, masking, disclosure, or compliance as the price of participation.

Choose Sage's next bounded action

Sage asks the archive to timestamp access changes and add an ambiguous status. A new review occurs only if the task, partner, language, access, or Sage's priorities change. Record the qualified owner, source evidence, effective date, current task, partner, language, and access version, ordinary supports, communication and health state, implementation check, accessible explanation, disagreement route, and reassessment trigger. Preserve the earlier record when information histories, partners, vocabulary, interfaces, settings, outcomes, health, or priorities change. A repaired arrangement creates a dated phase rather than an error in Sage's prior reasoning.

Close Sage's assessment

Review the perspective-taking evidence report with Sage, the qualified behavior analyst, relevant partners, access owners, and specialists named in the manifest. Confirm that observable information, visual perspective, story comprehension, language, memory, inhibition, social inference, mutual understanding, partner behavior, masking pressure, and client experience remain separate; every denominator is reproducible; AAC, privacy, and basic access remain protected; urgent needs received action; and conclusions stay bounded to sampled tasks. Keep this page draft and noindex until every required review is complete.

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